Antonyms 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

   Antonyms:
   betray, endanger, imperil, abandon, expose

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

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1. • Assist
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   • Trade

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

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1. protectverb

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

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. annihilate

   we had to protect the vase.

   Submitted by rinat on October 3, 2019  

2. lynch

   Submitted by anonymous on March 3, 2020  

How to use protect in a sentence?

1. Varshini Prakash:

   We saw how the Democrats had actually failed to put forward any kind of coherent plan to stop the climate crisis, even though U.N. climate scientists were telling us we had exactly 12 years to radically transform every part of our economy and protect human civilization as we know it. So we brought 200 young people to tell Nancy Pelosi and Democratic leadership we need you to step up.

2. John Vidale:

   Eventually, we want to provide simple, fast and uniform coverage to protect the citizens and infrastructure.

3. Guillermo Muñoz:

   I want to make sure that I'm protected and I want to make sure that, you know, that we protect others, the quicker we reach herd immunity, the quicker we will be able to go back to as normal a life as we possibly can.

4. Jules Scholles:

   I think Dan Busch's not only putting students and children at risk, but Dan Busch's also putting the students and children that they go to school with at risk. And additionally the community here in Sarasota County, the point of masking is you wear your mask to protect me ; I wear my mask to protect you. And so once we start kind of getting away from that, it really becomes a concern not only for the classroom, for the teachers, though. And then also for health care workers.

5. Greg Abbott:

   The act of evil that occurred in Santa Fe has deeply touched the core of who we are as Texans, in the midst of such tragedy, we pray for the victims and those mourning in Santa Fe, while we work to ensure swift and meaningful action to protect our students in schools across our state. I ask all Texans to join in holding a moment of silence tomorrow morning to remember the victims, their families, and first responders of the attack that took place at Santa Fe High School.

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