Hurting and Protect

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Hurting adjective - Causing or feeling bodily pain.

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Protect is an antonym for hurting in topics: cause mental pain, experience pain.

Nearby Words: hurt, hurtful

Protect verb - To drive danger or attack away from.

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Hurting is an antonym for protect.

Also Takeshi Sendoh, who is Hot-Blooded and a borderline Blood Knight... but actually started fighting to protect people rather than hurting them in purpose.

Source: Jerk With A Heart Of Gold / Anime
After deciding that hurting others is the only way to protect the people he loves, Ken Kaneki slowly becomes just as brutal as the Ghouls he considers to be monsters.

Source: He Who Fights Monsters / Anime and Manga
They are all intended to protect or help someone else or to stop someone from hurting people.

Source: Fan Fic / Never Had A Friend Like Me

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