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Protect

/pɹəˈtɛkt/

To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.

📖 Definitions of "Protect"

verb

1
To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
"Condoms are designed to protect against sexually-transmitted diseases."
2
(travel) To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
guardingnoun	The duty of one who guards.
protectionnoun	The process of keeping (something or someone) safe.
safeguardingnoun	Synonym of protection.
safeguardverb	Something that serves as a guard or protection; a defense.
defendverb	(transitive) To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
defenceverb	(obsolete, transitive) To furnish with defences; to fortify.
defenseverb	(sports, chiefly US) To employ defensive tactics (so as to block).
protectornoun	Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative.
conservationnoun	The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
preservationnoun	The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.
conserving	Accompanied by conservation.
guardverb	A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
preservingnoun	preservation
saveverb	(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
savingnoun	A reduction in cost or expenditure.
maintainingnoun	The act of doing maintenance.
maintenancenoun	Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
provideverb	To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
check-innoun	The act of checking in at a hotel, airport, etc.
upholdverb	To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling