PROTECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does protected mean? 

• PROTECTED (adjective)
  The adjective PROTECTED has 2 senses:

1. kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss

2. guarded from injury or destruction

  Familiarity information: PROTECTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss

Context example:

the most protected spot I could find

Similar:

bastioned; fortified (secured with bastions or fortifications)

battlemented (protected with battlements or parapets with indentations or embrasures for shooting through)

burglarproof (secure against burglary)

covert ((of a wife) being under the protection of her husband)

moated (protected by a deep wide ditch usually filled with water)

shielded ((used especially of machinery) protected by a shield to prevent injury)

snug (offering safety; well protected or concealed)

stormproof (protected against or able to withstand storms)

weatherproof (able to withstand exposure to weather without damage)

Also:

secure (free from danger or risk)

invulnerable (immune to attack; impregnable)

Antonym:

unprotected (lacking protection or defense)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Guarded from injury or destruction

Synonyms:

protected; saved

Similar:

preserved (kept intact or in a particular condition)

 Context examples 

Their study in mice also found that animals undergoing dietary restriction were better protected against tumors and bacterial infections than animals with unrestricted diets.

(Memory T cells shelter in bone marrow, boosting immunity in mice with restricted diets, National Institutes of Health)

Both strains triggered an immune response that protected the mice against the infection.

(Virus linked to food sensitivity, NIH)

The constant, functional portions of Env remain protected by an exterior with regions that mutate rapidly.

(The Structure and Dynamics of HIV Surface Spikes, NIH)

While either of them protected him and his, Hartfield was safe.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

If you already have your children, you will find that they are protected by a loving universe.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We dare not harm this little girl, he said to them, for she is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Increasing the level of a naturally-produced protein, called tristetraprolin (TTP), significantly reduced or protected mice from inflammation, according to researchers.

(Natural protein points to new inflammation treatment, NIH)

As they developed, U. mongoliensis seeds were protected inside a tough, resinous, umbrella-like outer covering, which stayed almost completely closed, opening only to release the seeds.

(Paleontologists find fossil relative of Ginkgo biloba, NSF)

Nucleosome core particle consists of the 146 base pair highly protected DNA segment and its bound histone octamer (two of each histones H2A, histone2B,, H3 and H4).

(Nucleosome Core Particle, NCI Thesaurus)

And now both mangonels were at work from the galleys, but so covered and protected that, save at the moment of discharge, no glimpse could be caught of them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)