adjective. defended.

adjective. Having the protected access modifier, indicating that a program element is accessible to subclasses but not to the program in general.

verb. Simple past tense and past participle of protect.

adjective. guarded from injury or destruction

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

"Banks, however, were for the most part protected from the rules that applied to everyone else - and ­protected at great cost to public funds."

unprotected  

bastioned  battlemented  burglarproof  covert  fortified  

protected sex  

affected  collected  connected  corrected  defected  

armed  cloaked  conserved  copyrighted  covered  

protect