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protecting
adjective as in defensive
adjective as in motherly
adjective as in on guard
adjective as in protective
noun as in conservancy
Strongest matches
Strong match
Weak matches
noun as in conservation
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in imperviousness
Strong matches
noun as in insulation
Strongest matches
Weak matches
noun as in insusceptibility
Weak matches
- battle
- blocking
- check
- combat
- contention
- counteraction
- cover
- defiance
- detention
- fight
- friction
- halting
- hindrance
- holding
- immunity
- impedance
- impediment
- impeding
- imperviousness
- intransigence
- obstruction
- parrying
- protection
- rebuff
- refusal
- retardation
- safeguard
- screen
- shield
- stand
- striking back
- struggle
- support
- unsusceptibility
- warding off
- watch
- withstanding
noun as in patrol
noun as in protection
Strong matches
noun as in renitence
Weak matches
- battle
- blocking
- check
- combat
- contention
- counteraction
- cover
- defiance
- detention
- fight
- friction
- halting
- hindrance
- holding
- impedance
- impediment
- impeding
- intransigence
- obstruction
- opposition
- parrying
- protection
- rebuff
- refusal
- renitency
- retardation
- safeguard
- screen
- shield
- stand
- striking back
- struggle
- support
- warding off
- watch
- withstanding
noun as in renitency
Weak matches
- battle
- blocking
- check
- combat
- contention
- counteraction
- cover
- defiance
- detention
- fight
- friction
- halting
- hindrance
- holding
- impedance
- impediment
- impeding
- intransigence
- obstruction
- opposition
- parrying
- protection
- rebuff
- refusal
- renitence
- retardation
- safeguard
- screen
- shield
- stand
- striking back
- struggle
- support
- warding off
- watch
- withstanding
noun as in resistance
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in safekeeping
Example Sentences
There is no Jubilee video, for example, on municipal transportation infrastructure or protecting public drinking water.
She said protecting more vulnerable people against Covid could help ease winter pressures on the health service.
“He said, ‘You did the right thing’ in protecting your children, explaining that when a substance abuser falls off the deep end, the endgame is sad and ugly.
In his letter, Milliken aimed to reassure the UC community that “our top priority now is protecting this institution — its resources, its mission and its values — for the sake of everyone we serve.”
Justice Secretary Angela Constance, who is steering the bill through parliament, has said the reforms will improve protections for victims and witnesses while protecting the rights of the accused.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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