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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'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Guarded" Quotes from Famous Books

... there was time for. Kerk swung the car out of the rush of traffic and onto a bridge marked Official Cars Only. Jason had a feeling of nakedness as they rolled under the harsh port lights towards the guarded gate ahead. ...

— Deathworld • Harry Harrison

... meantime, Satorian spies were working to find the strengths and weaknesses of Nansal, searching to discover their secret weapons and processes, if any. And they rigorously guarded their own secrets. They refused to disclose the secrets of the magnetic beam and the ...

— Islands of Space • John W Campbell

... own name, came up and fawned upon the man who had spoken, while the boy thrust into the hands of the leader the letter which he had so carefully guarded. ...

— Chasing an Iron Horse - Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War • Edward Robins

... never read that volume. Guido Reni, like his own eye's apple Guarded long the treasure-book and loved it. Guido Reni dying, all Bologna Cried, and the world cried too, "Ours, the treasure!" 30 Suddenly, as ...

— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning

... everything he did; I and my group of Congressmen and my newspapers, as loyal partizans, bent first of all upon regularity, were silent where we did not praise also. But the second year of a President's first term is the beginning of frank, if guarded, criticism of him from his own side. For it is practically his last year of venturing to exercise any real official power. The selection of delegates to the party's national convention, to which a President must submit ...

— The Plum Tree • David Graham Phillips

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