shield
/ˈʃild/ verb C2- To protect, to defend. · Sunscreen shields against the harmful effects of solar rays.
- To protect from the influence of.
He/she/it shields · Past shielded · Past participle shielded · -ing form shielding
Verb forms
- Base form
- shield
- He/she/it
- shields
- Past
- shielded
- Past participle
- shielded
- -ing form
- shielding
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Albert passed his hand over his forehead, as if to try his strength, as a man who is preparing to defend his life proves his shield and bends his sword.
Not one of these glances, nor one sigh, was lost on her; they might have been said to fall on the shield of Minerva, which some philosophers assert protected sometimes the breast of Sappho.
These are our arms, that is, those of my father, but they are, as you see, joined to another shield, which has gules, a silver tower, which are my mother’s.
Formerly they believed themselves sprung from Jupiter, and shielded by their birth; but nowadays they are not inviolable.
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