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Protecting vs Protect - What's the difference?

protecting | protect |

As verbs the difference between protecting and protect

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

protecting

English

Verb

(head)

    • protect

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
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    • , 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