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protect in English:

1. from from


Greetings from Poland.
The changes resulting from the women's movement have affected both women and men.
The goods ordered from England last month have not arrived yet.
I regret that a previous engagement prevents me from accepting your kind invitation.
From time to time, he goes to Tokyo on business.
Tom checked out a few books from the school library a few days ago.
The Balkan Mountain range runs across Bulgaria from west to east.
Each time I see Mary, I learn something new and important from her.
Could you please tell me again what school you graduated from?
The year after I graduated from college, I was finally able to find a job.
Tom managed to escape from the room where his kidnappers had kept him locked up.
It's still too hard to find a job. And even if you have a job, chances are you're having a tougher time paying the rising costs of everything from groceries to gas.
Father comes home from work about nine in the evening.
In most cases, car accidents result from lack of sleep.
Aside from that, is there anything else you want?

2. nurture nurture


Sports nurture friendships.
Let's use our experiences to nurture the sense needed to make marital relations go well.

3. safe safe


Nearly one billion people around the globe lack access to clean, safe water.
We have a right to demand a safe future for ourselves and future generations.
Safe journey.
However men, seeking the contents of that safe, kidnap Hana. And those men were really detectives.
For our children to be safe, please do not enter adult sites.
It is fairly safe to say that the family bound for Australia, or wherever it may be, has in its mind a vision of a nice house, or a flat, with maybe a bit of garden.
He decided to play it safe and pull out of the tournament due to his injured knee.
The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.
One of the important differences between Japanese and Americans is that Japanese tend to choose a safe course in life, while Americans choose to explore and challenge life.
The "buddy system" is a way to stay safe while hiking in the woods, except when encountering pregnant bears, which eat for two or even three or four.
Just because it's a "safe day" I'm not going to make out like monkeys without protection. Isn't it the duty of loving sex to take proper care of contraception?
They'll be attacked if they carelessly express an original viewpoint, so they only report on the safe options.
if you do something to be on the safe side, you do not take any risks because you want to be sure you will not fail or have any problems
Insurance makes us remember that the world we live in isn't completely safe; we might fall ill, face danger or encounter the unexpected.
1. Are we safe here? / 2. The company offers safe working conditions. / 3. Let's go, it's not safe here. / 4. Put your money in the hotel safe when you go out, just in case. / 5. There is a safe in every room.

4. overprotect overprotect



English word "protect"(overprotect) occurs in sets:

Word Formation (Year 3)

5. protect protect


I protected you
He has in his possession films that were never distributed to cinemas to protect them against piracy.
This means that if you try to protect yourself too much, you will only make bigger mistakes.
Imogen of the Internet is torn between filling out the music sections of all her online profiles and ensuring that none of her friends will have ever heard of her favorite bands in order to protect their precious obscurity.
Because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women, and children. And it is my first duty as President to protect the American people.
The most instinctive act of nearly every creature is to protect its young, and with humans, this response persists for a lifetime.
The dignity of man is inviolable. To respect and protect it is the duty of all state authority.
That is why the U.S. government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny it.
In ancient Rome, the bodyguards who surrounded the wealthy and powerful to protect them when they walked the streets, were called satellites.
Wanting to protect me from myself is about as ingenious as saving a fish from drowning.
Didn't your mother teach you anything? When you meet with scary people always protect your wallet and your arsehole!
I always have a tennis racquet, so if a bat flies near me, I can protect myself.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.

English word "protect"(protect) occurs in sets:

101 - 200 verbos

6. defend


Defend her from danger.
I never imagined that my skills as a lawyer would be used to defend Tom.
A good lawyer would leave no stone unturned in his efforts to defend his client.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
To defend ourselves, we had to tell a lie.
As a public official you have sworn an oath to uphold and defend the constitution.
Apart from his parents, nobody would defend the suspect.
It is more difficult to defend oneself than to defend someone else. Those who doubt it may look at lawyers.
If you try to defend the seniority-based corporate escalator these days all you'll get is flak from younger employees.
I always regard him as a great ally in the fight to defend fundamental rights.
defend one's thesis
It probably will. But it's difficult to find anyone who doesn't defend a child's right to be healthy.
How can you defend someone you know is guilty?
And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers – Thomas Jefferson – kept in his personal library.

7. shield


Look on both sides of the shield.
shield your eyes from the sun
The thirteen stars, arrows and bars on the shield all represent the thirteen original colonies.
He shielded me with his body.
A shield will not protect you from an attack from behind.
Can you please shield me?
He used the man's body as a shield.
The fact that people still cling to the belief that the State is required to resolve disputes is amazing, since modern courts are out of the reach of all but the most wealthy and patient, and are primarily used to shield the powerful from competition

English word "protect"(shield) occurs in sets:

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8. safe guard



9. against from



10. protection


Despite the government's protection, he was the victim of an assassination attempt which killed him.
witness protection
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.
Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Which is more important, economic development or environmental protection?
Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
I am the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Thou shalt have no other monsters before Me. (Afterwards is OK; just use protection.) The only Monster who deserves capitalization is Me! Other monsters are false monsters, undeserving of capitalization.
Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
The boss is hard to get along with. But if I try to talk to him about problems I have at work he might have a little heart. Even a hunter can't kill a bird who flies to him for protection.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Just because it's a "safe day" I'm not going to make out like monkeys without protection. Isn't it the duty of loving sex to take proper care of contraception?
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.