Synonyms for PROTECT
prəˈtɛktpro·tect

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1. protect

   To cherish is both to hold dear and to treat as dear. Mere unexpressed esteem would not be cherishing. In the marriage vow, "to love, honor, and cherish," the word cherish implies all that each can do by love and tenderness for the welfare and happiness of the other, as by support, protection, care in sickness, comfort in sorrow, sympathy, and help of every kind. To nurse is to tend the helpless or feeble, as infants, or the sick or wounded. To nourish is strictly to sustain and build up by food; to nurture includes careful mental and spiritual training, with something of love and tenderness; to foster is simply to maintain and care for, to bring up; a foster-child will be nourished, but may not be as tenderly nurtured or as lovingly cherished as if one's own. In the figurative sense, the opinion one cherishes he holds, not with mere cold conviction, but with loving devotion.

   See synonyms for ABANDON; CHASTEN.

   Synonyms:
   cheer, cherish, cling to, comfort, encourage, entertain, foster, harbor, hold dear, nourish, nurse, nurture, shelter, treasure, value

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1. protect

   Synonyms:
   defend, fortify, guard, shield, preserve, cover, secure, save, vindicate

   Antonyms:
   betray, endanger, imperil, abandon, expose

Princeton's WordNet

1. protectverb

   shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage

   "Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain"

2. protectverb

   use tariffs to favor domestic industry

Matched Categories

1. • Assist
   • Defend
   • Trade

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1. berdeck

   will you bedrock me?

   Submitted by bobashmore1956 on January 1, 2023  

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1. protectverb

   Synonyms:
   defend (by a covering), guard, shield, screen, shelter, house, preserve, secure, save

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1. protectverb

   Synonyms:
   shield, defend, guard, fortify, screen, shelter, befriend

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1. List of paraphrases for "protect":

   protecting, protection, safeguard, defend, protected, protects, preserve, safeguarding, secure, shield, protective, uphold, preserving

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How to use PROTECT in a sentence?

1. Greg McKenna:

   Around a million barrels of oil a day is likely to disappear from global oil markets if the U.S. sanctions on Iran bite, but it is still far from certain that they will bite in the way intended ... Germany has said it will protect its companies from U.S. sanctions, Iran has said French oil giant Total (TOTF.PA) has yet to pull out of its fields and all the while it seems the Chinese are ready to fill the void created by the U.S.

2. Tom Steyer:

   Trump’s energy policies would accelerate climate change, protect corporate polluters who profit from poisoning our air and water, and block the transition to clean energy that is necessary to strengthen our economy and protect our climate and health.

3. Rodrigue Katembo:

   Some of them were illegally arrested, others paid the ultimate price for the protection of Virunga, they really fought with their heart to protect Virunga National Park.

4. Jeremy Tedesco:

   As federal agencies begin to implement the order, Alliance Defending Freedom will keep watch and is prepared to file lawsuits if necessary to protect our constitutional freedoms.

5. Mike Solan:

   We have to protect jobs. Whether it's one or a couple hundred. That's our mission here, to protect jobs. It's not vaccinated versus unvaccinated, it's about the mandate in and of itself is a problem and they need to bargain this. Jobs are on the line. That's our purpose as a union.