GUARD
verb
Synonyms
defend, protect, shield; keep; watch.
Definitions
- 1. 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; toaccompany for protection; to vare for. For Heaven still guards the right. Shak.
- 2. To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
- 3. To protect the edge of, esp. with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc. The body of your discourse it sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither. Shak.
- 4. To fasten by binding; to gird. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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Added: October 09, 2025
Updated: October 09, 2025