Synonyms of sheltering

sheltering 1 of 3

adjective

as in protecting

Related Words

• protecting
• guarding
• sheltered
• shielding
• safeguarding
• protected
• defended
• secure
• shielded
• guarded
• safe
• invulnerable
• inviolable
• impregnable
• unassailable
• snug
• unconquerable

Dissimilar Words

• dangerous
• hazardous
• unsafe
• risky
• insecure
• threatening
• vulnerable
• menacing
• perilous
• unprotected
• uncertain
• treacherous
• unguarded
• precarious
• minatory
• parlous
• undefended

sheltering

2 of 3

noun

as in shielding

Related Words

• shielding
• protection
• safeguarding

Dissimilar Words

• exposure
• liability
• vulnerability
• openness
• susceptibility
• predisposition
• weakness
• helplessness
• defenselessness

sheltering

3 of 3

verb

present participle of shelter

1

as in housing

to be or provide a shelter for

the abandoned barn shelters a colony of stray cats

Synonyms & Similar Words

• protecting
• housing
• harboring
• securing
• defending
• shielding
• refuging
• safeguarding
• warding
• covering
• screening
• quartering
• shading
• placing
• domiciling
• shadowing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exposing

2

as in accommodating

to provide with living quarters or shelter

sheltered the troops in tents until permanent barracks could be built

Synonyms & Similar Words

• housing
• accommodating
• lodging
• camping
• harboring
• boarding
• bunking
• billeting
• bestowing
• roofing
• quartering
• rooming
• encamping
• domiciling
• bivouacking
• taking in
• securing
• shedding
• roosting
• homing
• chambering
• tenting
• stabling
• putting up
• ensconcing
• bedding (down)
• barracking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ejecting
• evicting

Example Sentences

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

At Mekelle's Tigray Martyrs' Memorial Monument, former fighters lined up to register with the authorities, some carrying papers or sheltering under umbrellas. — Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026

Former combatants seek to return to civilian life At Mekelle’s Tigray Martyrs’ Memorial Monument, former fighters lined up to register with the authorities, some carrying papers or sheltering under umbrellas. — Khaled Kazziha, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

At Mekelle’s Tigray Martyrs’ Memorial Monument, former fighters lined up to register with the authorities, some carrying papers or sheltering under umbrellas. — ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026

Residents of a Thornton neighborhood spent Sunday night sheltering inside their homes as police searched for an armed suspect following a shootout that left a Colorado police officer wounded. — Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

The Virgin acts as both midwife and priest, sheltering the pregnant pilgrim from the storm and washing away her sins so that she, too, can be delivered. — Ellen O’Connell Whittet, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026

At Adoptions for Love, a cat rescue currently sheltering 80 felines in the more upscale neighborhood of Playa, the number of people looking to adopt has plunged. — Orlando Matos, NBC news, 7 Oct. 2026

Israel’s attacks on schools, and on people sheltering in them, are not new. — Mosab Abu Toha, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2026

At some point, presumably, the AI-tech dominance of the index will carry too far and the S&P 500's great structural sheltering mechanism will leave it exposed to a bust cycle and a wave of capital destruction. — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026