Synonym: cover, defend, ensure, guard, harbor, safeguard, screen, shelter, shield. Similar words: protective, protection, protect from, environmental protection, protest, protein, rote, proton. Meaning: [prə'tekt] 
v. 1. shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage 2. use tariffs to favor domestic industry.
v. 1. shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage 2. use tariffs to favor domestic industry. 
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151 It is the business of the police to protect the community.
152 Residents in the villages under attack have been unable to protect their homes from plunder.
153 He told the police he didn't know her, to protect her good name.
154 We're not doing enough to protect the environment from pollution.
155 He volunteered to protect her as she looked so vulnerable.
156 The body has natural defence mechanisms to protect it from disease.
157 The government are failing in their duty to protect people.
158 The use of modern weapons has made it more difficult to protect civilians from aerial bombardment.
159 The new measures are designed to protect the public from people like these.
160 It's important to protect my fair skin from the sun.
161 We must take steps to protect the UK as a manufacturing base.
162 He felt it was his duty to protect the child.
163 The first duty of any government must be to protect the interests of the taxpayers.
164 She's always chasing cats out of the garden to protect her precious birds.
165 Are measures to protect the environment compatible with economic growth?
166 There were shrieks of em-barrassment as the girls struggled to protect their modesty.
167 The official line was that the troops were there to protect the King.
168 You must wear goggles and a mask that will protect you against the fumes.
169 Companies should protect employees who blow the whistle on dishonest workmates and work practices.
170 Senator Prior spoke out, adding her voice to the call for new laws to protect the environment.
171 Such laws could protect the consumer from harmful or dangerous remedies.
172 Officially, the guard was to protect us. In fact(Sentencedict), they were there to report on our movements.
173 The roof has an overhang to protect the walls from the rain.
174 Marine biologists are calling for Cardigan Bay to be created a marine nature reserve to protect the dolphins.
175 There's a law to protect refugees from forcible return to countries where they face persecution.
176 Tears help to protect the eye from potentially harmful foreign bodies.
177 The whole point of this legislation is to protect children.
178 There are laws there to protect the mentally ill, but now and then someone does slip through the net.
179 The males in the herd protect the females and the young.
180 Skiers wear goggles to protect their eyes from the sun.
More similar words: protective, protection, protect from, environmental protection, protest, protein, rote, proton, detect, protocol, detective, architect, promote, protracted, architecture, project, prospect, projection, froth, brother, carrot, note, technique, vote, technical, quote, voter, technology, antecedent, technician.