Definition of protect

"protect" in the verb sense

1. protect

shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage

"Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain"

2. protect

use tariffs to favor domestic industry

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Quotations for protect

I will protect. [ Motto ]

With this kiss take my blessing
God protect thee! [ William Shakespeare ]

Their numbers protect them and their compact array. [ Juv ]

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Heaven protect me from my friends; I will protect myself against my enemies. [ Proverb ]

We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life, but they would assassinate you. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection, - they have many friends and few enemies. [ Wendell Phillips ]

You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you. [ Yogi Berra ]

To protect one's self against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman, it proves a tempest in the harbor. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Let a woman once give you a task, and you are hers, heart and soul; all your care and trouble lend new charms to her for whose sake they are taken. To rescue, to revenge, to instruct, or protect a woman is all the same as to love her. [ Richter ]

People travel the world over to visit untouched places of natural beauty, yet modern gardens pay little heed to the simplicity and beauty of these environments... those special places we all must preserve and protect, each in his own way, before they are lost forever. [ Mary Reynolds, 2002 Gold Medal Winner of the Chelsea Flower Show, November 2001 Application Form. Dare to Be Wild movie ]

protect in Scrabble®

The word protect is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters protect:

PROTECT
(94 = 44 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

protect

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word protect

PROTECT
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PROTECT
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PROTECT
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PROTECT
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PROTECT
(62 = 12 + 50)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In protect

PROTECT
(94 = 44 + 50)
PROTECT
(92 = 42 + 50)
PROTECT
(92 = 42 + 50)
PROTECT
(86 = 36 + 50)
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PROTECT
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PROTECT
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protect in Words With Friends™

The word protect is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters protect:

PROTECT
(104 = 69 + 35)
PROTECT
(104 = 69 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

protect

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word protect

PROTECT
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PROTECT
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PROTECT
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In protect

PROTECT
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PROTECT
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PROTECT
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PROTECT
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PROTECT
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COPTER
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Words within the letters of protect

2 letter words in protect (4 words)

3 letter words in protect (13 words)

4 letter words in protect (15 words)

5 letter words in protect (10 words)

6 letter words in protect (3 words)

7 letter words in protect (1 word)

protect + 1 blank (1 word)

protect + 2 blanks (4 words)

Word Growth involving protect

Shorter words in protect

rot rote

Longer words containing protect

overprotect overprotected

overprotect overprotecting

overprotect overprotection overprotections

overprotect overprotective overprotectiveness

overprotect overprotects

protectable

protectant cryoprotectant cryoprotectants

protectant protectants cryoprotectants

protected overprotected

protected selfprotected

protected semiprotected

protected underprotected

protected unprotected

protected wellprotected

protecting overprotecting

protecting selfprotecting

protection cytoprotection

protection hepatoprotection hepatoprotections

protection overprotection overprotections

protection photoprotection photoprotections

protection protectionism protectionisms

protection protectionist protectionists

protection protections hepatoprotections

protection protections overprotections

protection protections photoprotections

protection protections selfprotections

protection radioprotection

protection selfprotection selfprotections

protective cardioprotective

protective cryoprotective

protective cytoprotective

protective neuroprotective

protective nonprotective nonprotectively

protective overprotective overprotectiveness

protective photoprotective

protective protectively nonprotectively

protective protectiveness overprotectiveness

protective protectives vasoprotectives

protective radioprotective

protective selfprotective

protective ultraprotective

protective vasoprotective vasoprotectives

protector hepatoprotector hepatoprotectors

protector protectoral

protector protectorate protectorates

protector protectorless

protector protectors hepatoprotectors

protector protectors radioprotectors

protector protectors selfprotectors

protector selfprotector selfprotectors

protects overprotects

protects selfprotects

selfprotect selfprotected

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selfprotect selfprotective

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