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protect English

Meaning protect meaning

What does protect mean?
Definitions in simple English

protect Verb

— If you protect something or someone, you keep it safe; you stop it from being harmed. The knight protected the castle.

protect

— verb shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain — verb use tariffs to favor domestic industry

Synonyms protect synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as protect?

protect English » English

guard defend preserve shield safeguard shelter keep save cover secure screen watch over watch maintain look after take care of help conserve support rescue prevent hide back patronize ward off tend take care harbour escort cherish uphold shade plate overlay lag keep safe coat care for ward strengthen protection face care wrap up watch out for supervise stand up for picket patronise patrol

Topics protect topics

What do people use protect to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Save from trouble
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Protect
Social behavior Law Trial

Defend against accusation
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Defend

Conjugation protect conjugation

How do you conjugate protect?

protect · verb

Examples protect examples

How do I use protect in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I acted to protect myself from a similar destiny.
What are you trying to protect me from?
I had to protect them.
Tom is here to protect me.
Protect him.
Tom knows how to protect himself.
A bunker won't protect you from viruses.
The most instinctive act of nearly every creature is to protect its young, and with humans, this response persists for a lifetime.
I believe it my duty to protect these children.
We must try to protect the environment.
I will protect you from danger.
We should tell children how to protect themselves.
You have to wear a helmet to protect your head.
She put on dark glasses to protect her eyes from the sun.
She risked her life to protect her child.
One has to put on a helmet to protect the head.
Let us protect the beautiful nature that surrounds us.
They strengthened the dikes to protect the village against the flood.
I'm only an immigrant trying to protect the English language from its native speakers.
Sunglasses protect our eyes from the sun.
You have to protect your family.
One has to protect his family.
First, you must protect yourself.
Tom has to protect himself.
He did all he could to protect his son.

Movie subtitles

It is the only way to protect against the scorpions.
I have to know what's out there in order to protect myself and survive.
I don't know if my life line is tough, but. I know that I have to protect this place! I know that I have to protect this place!
To protect the people precious to you?
The crocs charge money to protect us!
Officer Snick put a shrimp in his mouth just to protect it.
Guys, I had no idea you did this to protect us and Kenny.
The club wouldn't allow recording devices inside to protect the dancers, but I took handwritten notes.
Looks like the entire world's dying to protect you, Senator.
Mr. Attorney. For the convenience of the investigation of the Ribonard case and to avoid confrontation and also to protect the life of the prisoner extradited from Louvain, it is desirable he is not seen by anyone.
He killed him to protect my honour.
God protect us!
God protect our children, Leu and Blanda.
We want to help the Arabs, to protect their language and their religion. We wish to let them run their own country and help them gradually take in the values of modern Western civilization.
May Allah protect you.
May He protect you.
I have to protect you.
We want to protect the Arabs' language and religion.
I came to help the emir's family with French knowledge. May Allah protect them.
They'll protect your feet.
May God protect him in exile.
Henceforth, he'll protect you, as he does the French.
May Allah protect her from it.
It is possible to kill us, hence the need for us to protect ourselves as we're doing now.
We protect you!
He's paying the CIA to protect him?
But ultimately, you know, he's concerned for his well-being and he wants to protect him.
He kind of just lives to protect those that he loves. She came here?
I think he is all about building an army to protect himself from the hunters.
He doesn't want her to be killed for an unjust reason, so he has to protect her.
Scott's responsibilities, I think, grew, in trying to protect his family more.
He just wants to protect her and make sure that she is happy.
You should protect her well.
I know that I have to protect this place!
TO PROTECT EVERYTHING ELSE.
Beat his nose, he'll try to protect it.
Protect me.
May God protect you!

News and current affairs

But there is a serious downside: The deal could hurt developing-country exporters, unless the EU and the US make a concerted effort to protect these actors' interests.
For a very low cash outlay - and perhaps none at all on balance - we could conserve nature and thus protect the basis of our own lives and livelihoods.
Of course, constitutions are not meant to protect the status quo if the status quo is rotten.
To resist these powerful pressures, fiscal councils will need to have their work audited periodically by international agencies such as the International Monetary Fund, both to protect their independence and to promote accountability.
At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, America committed itself to protect global ecosystems, yet little has been seen or heard from US policy makers on this issue since then.
Sadly, we are doing less than is possible to prevent things from getting worse and doing less than necessary to protect ourselves from the consequences.
Two things can be done to protect coral reefs.
In the post-2015 era, the fight against poverty and the fight to protect the environment will go hand in hand, reinforcing each other.
One may ask whether transparency and the requirement that local landholders consent to a sale is enough to protect people living in poverty.
The principle that international cooperation is required to protect fishery resources, which are dwindling everywhere, was adopted at the 2011 CCAMLR meeting.
But the UN exists to protect all states from lawless behavior, including by the US.
They do not have the same abilities as adults to protect or care for themselves.
The paradox of American power is that the world's only military superpower cannot protect its citizens by acting alone.
Failure to address the deficit (and the mounting debt) will create pressures to reduce what the US spends on foreign aid, intelligence, and defense - although Republicans are more likely than Democrats to protect such spending (except for foreign aid).
That leaves only about one-third of total federal spending from which to cut, and much of that goes to the defense budget, which Republicans will attempt to protect in the future.
But laws and policies alone are not sufficient to protect women from horrific domestic abuse.
The Afghan government must take several steps to protect women fully.
Meanwhile, the international community collectively fails to protect vast populations of vulnerable migrants, such as the millions stranded by the recent conflicts in North Africa.
And, where it is clear that immigrants will be needed, we must be able to identify, welcome, integrate, and protect them.
And, surrounded by unthreatening countries and two oceans, it finds it far easier to protect itself.
America had a moral responsibility to protect the young people whom Obama had encouraged.
Russia's message to other West-leaning countries in the former Soviet world was clear: America cannot protect you.
Set up to protect the weak against the strong, labor unions had become, by the 1970's, enemies of economic progress, a massive force of social conservatism.
They also do not seem to realize that an energy tax is a much cheaper way for Europe to protect itself from Iran and Russia than alternative means, such as a defense buildup.

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