protect

About 32.95 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.

   to protect a child from danger

2. verb To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.

Similar words

guarding protection safeguarding safeguard defend defence defense protector conservation preservation

Often followed by

the their them and themselves her his against him it

Word family

protectable protected protecting protective protectively protectiveness protectivenesses protects