protect
/pɹəˈtɛkt/ verb B1- To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to. · to protect a child from danger· This antivirus package will protect your computer from hackers.
- To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.
Plural protect · He/she/it protects · Past protected · Past participle protected · -ing form protecting
Verb forms
- Base form
- protect
- He/she/it
- protects
- Past
- protected
- Past participle
- protected
- -ing form
- protecting
From the library
But I have nothing to fear while I have you to protect me.”
Napoleon would, doubtless, have deprived Villefort of his office had it not been for Noirtier, who was all powerful at court, and thus the Girondin of ’93 and the Senator of 1806 protected him who so lately had been his protector.
But I am not afraid so long as I have my oil-can, and nothing can hurt the Scarecrow, while you bear upon your forehead the mark of the Good Witch’s kiss, and that will protect you from harm.”
“What will protect him?”
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