GUARD

verb

Synonyms

defend, protect, shield; keep; watch.

Definitions

  1. 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. 2. To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
  3. 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. 4. To fasten by binding; to gird. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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Added: October 09, 2025 Updated: October 09, 2025
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