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Protect vs Defending - What's the difference?

protect | defending |

As verbs the difference between protect and defending

is that protect is to keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to while defending is .

protect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter , title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , volume=100, issue=2, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=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.}}

    Synonyms

    * (l) * See also

    Derived terms

    * protection * To protect and to serve

    defending

    English

    Verb

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