Word Finder - protect

definition

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

example

Condoms are designed to protect against sexually-transmitted diseases.

definition

(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.

They are elected or appointed to protect the rights of the citizens, yet they become the agents of their death.

I'll protect you as I always have.

He wanted to protect her and preserve her innocence.

A woman has a right to protect herself – any way she can.

She acted like she was trying to protect him.

He can't protect you for long.

You have to protect him, the Watcher said.

I just want to protect you...

I'm old enough, and I'm going to protect you from bad guys.

It is necessary to protect life, liberty, and property.

Protect and Serve took on a new perspective.

I'll find a way to protect you.

I'll protect you, kiri.

The fact that there was nothing to protect her from was irrelevant.

Or he could protect her.

Heck, even Japan only recently allowed imports of rice and taxes the imports at 500 percent in order to protect their rice farmers.

She knows her life is in his hands; there is no one to protect her from his wrath.

Are you trying to protect her now?

Free people establish governments to protect their rights.

The others, even Quinn, didn't disagree, but added, "And protect ourselves in doing so."

It seemed like too long already, especially since the woman was alone to protect herself.

Protect those coming into blossom.

There were no limits to what he'd do to protect her.

He's sworn to protect our world.

I want to ask you to agree to protect me.

Still, I did all I knew to do to protect you.

I just helped you protect the souls.

She was trained to assess, protect, repair, and sustain government systems through any kind of crisis.

I know, I know, Kris says I'm an angel and angels are supposed to protect humans and you're anything but human but I still want to stay with you.

She stepped closer to him as she had in their dream, gazing up into his molten silver eyes.  He'd gone to Hell for Hannah and confronted Death for her.  He'd killed demons to protect her and defied his family to find – and keep – her.

Of all the coddling he'd accused Sofi and Bianca of doing, he'd been working hard to protect Darian from anything that might force him to grow into his powers.

Most importantly, he.d protect Katie by building a world that was safe for her and watching over her from a distance.

But, I.ll keep the Council together to protect Katie and our hatchling.

The only way to protect innocent people from the blood feud that runs between my family and A'Ran's was to use honor.

I must protect them and ensure their honor and mine remains intact.

Your tent has to protect against wind, water and snow to maintain a warm and dry climate inside.

You'd rather kill humans than protect them?

I wanted to protect you.  Rhyn and Gabe came to find you, but I knew I could find you faster, so I came with a shapeshifter.

They'll protect her, as long as it takes.

I want to protect and cherish you.

She did her best to protect those she cared about and ended up here.

The villains, who formed the majority of the population, got very little from it; in fact the only clauses which protect them do so because they are property - the property of their lords - and therefore valuable.

The same skill you have that we would help you learn to use is also of interest to those we are trying to protect humans from.

Instead, he almost felt the need to wrap his arms around her to protect her.

These magistrates, as we have already seen, were originally appointed to control and protect the humbler classes.

Any poisonous substance that is not included in the schedules can be sold by anyone, as, for instance, red lead, sulphate of copper, &c. The duty of the Pharmaceutical Society is a purely legal one, and relates only to the schedules of poisons framed by the government to protect the public by rendering it a difficult matter to obtain the poisons most frequently used for criminal purposes.

The embryo consists of an axis bearing one (Monocotyledons) or two (Dicotyledons) cotyledons, which protect the stem bud (plumule) of the future plant, and ending below in a radicle.

The peace decrees of these various synods differed considerably in detail, but in general they were intended fully to protect non-combatants; they forbade, under pain of excommunication, every act of private warfare or violence against ecclesiastical buildings and their environs, and against certain persons, such as clerics, pilgrims, merchants, women and peasants, and against cattle and agricultural implements.

Always keenly alive to the interests of chemists in general, Bell conceived the idea of a society which should at once protect the interests of the trade, and improve its status, and at a public meeting held on the 15th of April 1841, it was resolved to found the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

The town of Sierock, at the confluence of the Bug and the Narew, is fortified to protect the rear of Novogeorgievsk.