Secure
Secure verb - To drive danger or attack away from.
To protect and secure are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "To protect" with "Secure", this terms are similar.
To protect
Secure and to protect are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Secure" instead a verb phrase "To protect".
Both terms in one sentence
-
John builds a secure treehouse to protect from the beasts of the jungle, and spends a year providing for his wife and infant son before the two English nobles both die.
Source: Literature / Tarzan of the Apes - Suzaku feels horrible after Lelouch tells him that he trusts him and Nunnally asks him to protect Lelouch considering he has to let Lelouch die to secure the future.
- The general covered up his own daughter's gang-rape to protect the reputation of West Point and to secure a promotion for himself.
Source: Parental Betrayal
Cite this Source
To protect and Secure. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/secure/to_protect
Secure & To protect. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/secure/to_protect>.
To protect or Secure. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/secure/to_protect.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "secure" and "to protect" have occurred on timeline