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Guard

noun

1.

A person who keeps watch over something or someone.

2.

The person who plays that position on a football team.

3.

A device designed to prevent injury or accidents. Synonyms: safety, safety device.

4.

A posture of defence in boxing or fencing.

5.

The person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team.

6.

A military unit serving to protect some place or person.

7.

A precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.. Synonyms: precaution, safeguard. "An insurance policy is a good safeguard" , "We let our guard down"

8.

The duty of serving as a sentry. Synonyms: guard duty, sentry duty, sentry go.

9.

(American football) a position on the line of scrimmage.

10.

A position on a basketball team.

verb

(past & past part. guarded; pres. part. gurding)

1.

To keep watch over.

2.

Watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect. Synonym: ward.

3.

Protect against a challenge or attack. Synonyms: defend, hold. "Hold the bridge against the enemy's attacks"

4.

Take precautions in order to avoid some unwanted consequence. "Guard against infection"

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... Joam; "and now keep guard over that window; it will not do for them to take me out of ...

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— Thoughts on Man - His Nature, Productions and Discoveries, Interspersed with - Some Particulars Respecting the Author • William Godwin

... Algiers. The fifth corps, under the command of Prince Napoleon, was despatched at a later date to Tuscany, where it was kept in a state of inactivity, which suggested rather a political than a military mission. General Regnault de Saint-Jean d'Angely commanded the Imperial Guard. Napoleon III assumed the supreme command of the allied armies, with General Vaillant ...

— The Liberation of Italy • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

... fall into her hands was a thick red tourist's handbook, an old edition, perhaps from the days when Innstetten was a lieutenant. "Yes, I will read in this book; there is nothing more quieting than books like this. Only the maps should always be avoided. But I shall guard against this source of sand in the eyes, which ...

— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various

... careful to guard the Divine character from the charge of partiality. And obviously so. Let but the idea be entertained in the mind for a moment, and it leaves a slime behind it as if a serpent had passed through the corridor of our dwelling. The simple question then is, Does this doctrine ...

— The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election • Robert Wallace

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