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All safeguard synonyms

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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.
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