All safeguard synonyms
safe·guard
S s verb safeguard
- make sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- mothballed — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- apprize — to give notice to; inform; advise (often followed by of): to be apprised of the death of an old friend.
- get the hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
- beat off — to drive back; repel
- apprized — Simple past tense and past participle of apprize.
- cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- go along with — permit, consent to
- chaperon — (esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
- cherish — If you cherish something such as a hope or a pleasant memory, you keep it in your mind for a long period of time.
- harbor — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- defend — If you defend someone or something, you take action in order to protect them.
- conserve — If you conserve a supply of something, you use it carefully so that it lasts for a long time.
- cinched — a strong girth used on stock saddles, having a ring at each end to which a strap running from the saddle is secured.
- lead — to cover, line, weight, treat, or impregnate with lead or one of its compounds.
noun safeguard
- buckler — a small round shield worn on the forearm or held by a short handle
- bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
- invulnerability — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
- companion — A companion is someone who you spend time with or who you are travelling with.
- kedge — to warp or pull (a ship) along by hauling on the cable of an anchor carried out from the ship and dropped.
- chaperone — A chaperone is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm.
- guardian — a person who guards, protects, or preserves.
- bulwark — A bulwark against something protects you against it. A bulwark of something protects it.
- insusceptibility — not susceptible; incapable of being influenced or affected (usually followed by of or to): insusceptible of flattery; insusceptible to infection.
- canniness — the quality of being canny
- grapnel — a device consisting essentially of one or more hooks or clamps, for grasping or holding something; grapple; grappling iron.
- guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- babysitter — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- cerberus — a dog, usually represented as having three heads, that guarded the entrance to Hades
- weaponry — weapons or weaponlike instruments collectively.
- wardship — guardianship; custody.
- duenna — (in Spain and Portugal) an older woman serving as escort or chaperon of a young lady.
- incubation — the act or process of incubating.
- absorber — a person or thing that absorbs
- grappling iron — a grapnel.