SHELTERING Synonyms: 82 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in protecting

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noun

as in shielding

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sheltering

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verb

present participle of shelter

as in housing

to be or provide a shelter for the abandoned barn shelters a colony of stray cats

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exposing

as in accommodating

to provide with living quarters or shelter sheltered the troops in tents until permanent barracks could be built

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Recent Examples of sheltering

Noun

After deputies responded to the property, the Adams County Sheriff’s Office contacted ARC to provide animal-handling expertise, evidence collection, emergency sheltering and eventual placement in permanent homes. — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026 The quake toppled factories and historic temple gates, cut power and water to tens of thousands and forced mass sheltering, as Japan’s Self Defense Forces and international crews race to save lives. — Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026 And before this temporary sheltering, on Day 103 (orbit 1598) of their mission, Adenot captured a striking photograph of Mount Vesuvius from the space station and shared it on social media. — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 8 June 2026 Community members also raised concerns about the sheltering of those displaced, said communication was confusing and people didn’t know what to plan for, and that some experienced price gouging. — Victoria Le, Oc Register, 27 May 2026 The delays affected a range of disaster-response functions, including housing inspections, temporary sheltering and crisis counseling, and slowed the distribution of aid tied to major events such as the July 2025 Texas floods and Hurricane Helene. — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026 But Seattle has tried to support his game in different ways, with extreme sheltering in terms of quality of competition and deployment. — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026 All this sheltering has created an economic crisis that has grown worse by the day. — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026 The portrayal appears to suggest that motherly attributes are solely within the realm of being loving, caring, comforting, protective, sheltering, and so on. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025

Verb

Animals sheltering underground or in water would have had a better chance of surviving the initial heat pulse. — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 1 Aug. 2026 Many people are sheltering in Bordeaux, which is France’s sixth-most populous metropolitan area. — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 27 July 2026 His question insinuates that Mano Majra’s Muslims had been sheltering criminals. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026 Two separate three-bed guest houses, one with its own pool, offer privacy within privacy, while the commanding 1,300-square-meter (13,993 square feet) six-bed main house spreads the double wings of its terracotta roofs in sheltering fashion. — Donna Hardie-Scott, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026 Cleaning Up Leaves in Early Spring Just like other pollinators, fireflies and their larvae also use fallen leaf litter as sheltering spots in spring. — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 July 2026 Next to the steps to Mont Bessou, there is a welcoming committee sheltering from the rain under several pop-up gazebos. — Andy McGrath, New York Times, 11 July 2026 Al-Zaharnah’s journey of mourning began in October when an Israeli missile leveled the five-story building in Gaza City where his family was sheltering with others during Israel’s war against Hamas militants. — Bilal Shbeir, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026 Some festivalgoers were sheltering under a museum overhang tonight, singing patriotic tunes as rain began falling. — Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 5 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sheltering

Noun

Scientists reported this week on the radiation-shielding vest worn around the moon by a female test dummy in 2022.

— Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026
Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field absorb this radiation, but crews heading to the Moon or Mars won’t have that protection, and no spacecraft built so far has enough shielding to stop it.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of shielding

Verb

Plaintiffs' attorney Alexander Shalom argued that housing the plaintiffs in a segregated unit violates their constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026
Elevator access is available in the main buildings housing the lobby and restaurants.

— Ronee Uyeshiro, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2026

Definition of housing

Noun

Payton has talked routinely in camp about Coleman being further along than other first-year backs in his ability to grasp pass-protection responsibilities.

— Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026
But the fate of Mangione’s state case, set to go to trial next month, now hangs in the balance as his attorneys seek to get second-degree murder and weapons charges dismissed over double jeopardy protections.

— Kara Scannell, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of protection

Verb

According to the country's Home Affairs department, which briefed lawmakers on Tuesday, the country has spent nearly $18 million accommodating and transporting immigrants who demanded to return to their home countries.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
The 50-sheet feeder also works with multiple types of paper and different sizes batches, easily accommodating your needs.

— George Yang, PC Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of accommodating

Noun

And if your data needs extra safeguarding, the My Passport SSD comes with 256-bit AES hardware encryption and password protection for a double security whammy.

— Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 6 July 2026
Recent headlines have prompted difficult but necessary conversations about welfare, safeguarding and accountability in television.

— Emma Pringle, Deadline, 17 June 2026

Definition of safeguarding

Verb

All nine bodies were airlifted to Frog Lake Huts, the backcountry lodging the group stayed at for two nights before the avalanche.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Experiences may eventually become a larger part of the platform, but Hachey emphasized that the next year will be focused on lodging execution.

— Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of lodging

Verb

More recently, the tiny Delica Mini has expanded the Delica's dominion, flashing some adventure and camping chops of its own.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Aug. 2026
But over the course of the next several years in Chicago, our friendship grew, during movie nights and house parties; camping trips and clothing swaps.

— Birdie Horne, PEOPLE, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of camping

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