Usually means: Shield from harm or danger.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word protect:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. protect: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. protect: Merriam-Webster
  3. protect, protect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. protect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. protect: Collins English Dictionary
  6. protect: Vocabulary.com
  7. Protect, protect: Wordnik
  8. protect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. protect: Wiktionary
  10. protect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. protect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. protect: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. protect: Dictionary.com
  14. protect: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Protect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Protect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. protect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. protect: Rhymezone
  19. protect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. protect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. protect: FreeDictionary.org
  22. protect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. protect: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. protect: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. protect: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. protect: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. protect: Legal dictionary
  6. Protect: Financial dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. protect: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PROTECT: Acronym Finder
  3. protect: Idioms

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Protect: Dan's Poker
  2. Protect: Poker Terms

(Note: See protected as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
verb:  (travel, aviation) To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.

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