Antonyms for shield
ʃildshield

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1. shield

   The weak may speak or act in defense of the strong; none but the powerful can assure others of protection. A defense is ordinarily against actual attack; protection is against possible as well as actual dangers. We speak of defense against an assault, protection from the cold. Vindication is a triumphant defense of character and conduct against charges of error or wrong. Compare APOLOGY.

   Antonyms:
   abandonment, betrayal, capitulation, desertion, flight, surrender

   Synonyms:
   apology, bulwark, defense, fortress, guard, justification, protection, rampart, resistance, safeguard, shelter, vindication

   Preposition:
   Defense against assault or assailants; in law, defense to an action, from the testimony.

Matched Categories

1. • Hide
   • Protect
   • Protective Covering

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shieldnoun

   a protective covering or structure

   Synonyms:
   cuticle, shell, buckler, carapace

2. shield, bucklernoun

   armor carried on the arm to intercept blows

   Synonyms:
   cuticle, shell, buckler, carapace

3. carapace, shell, cuticle, shieldverb

   hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles

   Synonyms:
   casing, cuticle, racing shell, eggshell, case, shell, epidermis, buckler, carapace, scale, plate

4. shield, screenverb

   protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm

   Synonyms:
   test, sieve, riddle, harbour, block out, sort, harbor, screen, screen out

5. harbor, harbour, shieldverb

   hold back a thought or feeling about

   "She is harboring a grudge against him"

   Synonyms:
   screen, harbour, nurse, harbor, entertain, hold

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1. shieldnoun

   Synonyms:
   ægis, buckler, escutcheon, scutcheon, pavise, scutum, defense, protection, palladium, bulwark, safeguard

   Associated words:
   scutal, bouche

2. shieldverb

   Synonyms:
   defend, protect, safeguard, ward off, repel

How to use shield in a sentence?

1. Richard Lawhern:

   My instinct is to acknowledge incremental progress, and then get busy forcing the immediate recall and repudiation of the entire [CDC] guidelines document and all state legislation or regulation that incorporates it, we likely wont be able to avoid a rewrite effort for somekind of guideline, because doctors wont reenter pain management practice without a shield from sanctions.

2. Henry Connelly:

   There are concerns in the House about enshrining the increasingly controversial Section 230 liability shield in our trade agreements.

3. James Scott:

   The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

4. Whitney Bowe:

   We have pubic hair for a reason, it acts as a shield against bacteria, allergens, and other unwanted pathogens.

5. Stephanie Baldwin:

   As soon as the gunfire started, everyone dropped to the floor and they were underneath desks, and she was trying to shield herself with a chair, along with a man next to her, then, all of a sudden, she said she just felt (the bullet) going through her back.

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