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/gˈɑrdəd/ /gˈɑrdɪd/ Listen

verb

Guard v. t. (past & past part. guarded; pres. part. gurding)

To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; to protect by attendance; to accompany for protection; to care for. "For Heaven still guards the right."

To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

To protect the edge of, esp. with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc. "The body of your discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither."

To fasten by binding; to gird. (Obs.)

Synonyms: To defend; protect; shield; keep; watch.

Guard v. i. To watch by way of caution or defense; to be cautious; to be in a state or position of defense or safety; as, careful persons guard against mistakes.

adjective

Guarded adj. Cautious; wary; circumspect; as, he was guarded in his expressions; framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were guarded.

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Etymology of 'Guarded'

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... was taken. As soon as this happened they gave up the chase, and returned to their camp full of joy and exultation. Acomat first caused his nephew to be shackled and well guarded, and then, being a man of great lechery, said to himself that he would go and enjoy himself among the fair women of his Court. He left a great Melic[NOTE 1] in command of his host, enjoining him to guard Argon like his own life, ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... to him that it is only appropriate that this long series of episodes should culminate in the most important international case which he has ever been called upon to handle, that I at last succeeded in obtaining his consent that a carefully guarded account of the incident should at last be laid before the public. If in telling the story I seem to be somewhat vague in certain details, the public will readily understand that there is an excellent ...

— The Return of Sherlock Holmes • Arthur Conan Doyle

... into the camp, until it actually bristled with bayonets. On every side it was guarded with cannon, and, day and night, mounted men patrolled the avenues to give notice of the first hostile gathering. But there was no gathering. The conspirators were there, two thousand strong, with five thousand Illini to back them. From every point of the compass,—from Canada, ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 • Various

... the institution would hardly be expected if the males of the tribe did not mount guard over it. The affections in which women excel have so much more authority and intensity that pure comradeship would be washed away if it were not rallied and guarded in clubs, corps, colleges, banquets and regiments. Most of us have heard the voice in which the hostess tells her husband not to sit too long over the cigars. It is the dreadful voice of Love, seeking to ...

— What's Wrong With The World • G.K. Chesterton

... the affair, and copies of letters to his father, but the bulk of the papers consisted of such data as his son and namesake could gather. This formed a copious mass, for he had set down every least circumstance that he thought might have any bearing upon his father's case. These papers, guarded so jealously, bequeathed to his successors the sacred task of ...

— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler

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