protect

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1. ambitransitiveTo keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.

   to protect a child from danger

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   This antivirus package will protect your computer from hackers.

   Condoms are designed to protect against sexually-transmitted diseases.

   But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.

   2012 March 28, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87

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