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Synonyms for protect
prəˈtɛktpro·tect

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.2 / 9 votes

  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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  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

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Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. berdeck

    will you bedrock me?

    Submitted by bobashmore1956 on January 1, 2023  

Dictionary of English Synonymes5.0 / 2 votes

  1. protectverb

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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. protectverb

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

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How to use protect in a sentence?

  1. Hassan Nasrallah:

    God protect the world from what he can do.

  2. Joe Biden:

    The answer is not to defund the police, it's to fund the police. Fund them. Fund them, fund them with resources and training they need to protect our communities.

  3. Dennis Tajer:

    Our sense is its a rush to comply lets go, lets go, lets go, im in a rush to protect my passengers.

  4. Julian Tang:

    There’s a tremendous cost to this, it means you have an extra vaccine that could be used to protect people that is going unused and more people will be at risk.

  5. Federal Judge Dabney Friedrich:

    The government has demonstrated good cause to protect some of the discovery.


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  • halukkaramete
    Could you explain what these sections are for: English Synonyms and Antonyms OR Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms OR Dictionary of English Synonymes etc... Are those included in there to give the different perspectives on the same word from various websites and sources? Do you have a page in your website that explains such details to offer more insight as to how to use the data available? 
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