Synonyms for shield
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English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shield

   The weak may speak or act in defense of the strong; none but the powerful can assure others of protection. A defense is ordinarily against actual attack; protection is against possible as well as actual dangers. We speak of defense against an assault, protection from the cold. Vindication is a triumphant defense of character and conduct against charges of error or wrong. Compare APOLOGY.

   Synonyms:
   apology, bulwark, defense, fortress, guard, justification, protection, rampart, resistance, safeguard, shelter, vindication

   Antonyms:
   abandonment, betrayal, capitulation, desertion, flight, surrender

   Preposition:
   Defense against assault or assailants; in law, defense to an action, from the testimony.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shieldnoun

   a protective covering or structure

   Synonyms:
   cuticle, shell, buckler, carapace

2. shield, bucklernoun

   armor carried on the arm to intercept blows

   Synonyms:
   cuticle, shell, buckler, carapace

3. carapace, shell, cuticle, shieldverb

   hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles

   Synonyms:
   casing, cuticle, racing shell, eggshell, case, shell, epidermis, buckler, carapace, scale, plate

4. shield, screenverb

   protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm

   Synonyms:
   test, sieve, riddle, harbour, block out, sort, harbor, screen, screen out

5. harbor, harbour, shieldverb

   hold back a thought or feeling about

   "She is harboring a grudge against him"

   Synonyms:
   screen, harbour, nurse, harbor, entertain, hold

Matched Categories

1. • Hide
   • Protect
   • Protective Covering

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. shieldnoun

   Synonyms:
   buckler, ægis

2. shieldnoun

   Synonyms:
   safeguard, protection, defence, guard, cover, security, bulwark, rampart, palladium

3. shieldnoun

   Synonyms:
   escutcheon, ensign armorial

4. shieldverb

   Synonyms:
   defend, protect, guard, shelter, cover

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shieldnoun

   Synonyms:
   ægis, buckler, escutcheon, scutcheon, pavise, scutum, defense, protection, palladium, bulwark, safeguard

   Associated words:
   scutal, bouche

2. shieldverb

   Synonyms:
   defend, protect, safeguard, ward off, repel

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "shield":

   escudo, shields, protector, shielding, breastplate, armor, armour, shielded, ecu, screen, deck, protect, protection, dun, badge, saver

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How to use shield in a sentence?

1. Bernie Sanders:

   Today, after decades of consolidation and deregulation, just a small handful of companies control almost everything you watch, read, and download, given that reality, we should not want even more of the free press to be put under the control of a handful of corporations and 'benevolent' billionaires who can use their media empires to punish their critics and shield themselves from scrutiny.

2. Quentin Crisp:

   Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

3. Attorney General Kamala Harris:

   Sitting behind a computer, committing what is essentially a cowardly and criminal act will not shield predators from the law or jail. we will continue to be vigilant and investigate and prosecute those who commit these deplorable acts.

4. Richard Lawhern:

   We likely wont be able to avoid a rewrite effort for somekind of guideline, because doctors wont reenter pain management practice without a shield from sanctions.

5. Kate Andersen Brower:

   Pat Nixon was completely in the bunker during Watergate, which dragged on for two years. She stopped reading the newspapers at the height of the barrage and blamed others, in this case Republicans, for trying to bring her husband down, at one point the West Wing staff cut off her newspapers in an effort to shield her from the headlines. But she knew exactly what was going on and she defended her husband until the end.