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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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"Guard" Quotes from Famous Books

... deaf? Yersss!" roared Dinass; and as the miner took his foot from the prostrate man's chest another moved to the doorway to guard against retreat. ...

— Sappers and Miners - The Flood beneath the Sea • George Manville Fenn

... an order to Crassus to join him instantly from Montdidier. He sent to Fabius at St. Pol to meet him at Arras. He wrote to Labienus, telling him the situation, and leaving him to his discretion to advance or to remain on his guard at Lavacherie, as might seem most prudent. Not caring to wait for the rest of his army, and leaving Crassus to take care of Amiens, he started himself, the morning after the information reached him, with Trebonius's legion to Cicero's relief. Fabius ...

— Caesar: A Sketch • James Anthony Froude

... confinement lay, It came to pass upon a certain day, That Pharaoh King of Egypt, being wroth With his chief butler, and chief baker both, For their offences, put them both in ward, In the house of the captain of the guard: Into the place where Joseph was confin'd, Unto whose custody they were resign'd; And he attended on them in the prison. And there they were continue'd for a season, During which time it chanced both of them ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... of Democrats to go to the "seat of war." But before any of them had arrived General Grant, the actual President, anticipating what was about to happen, appointed a body of Republicans for the like purpose, and the advance guard of these appeared on the ...

— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson

... the North 'cause dey wanted to be free. Some of my family run away sometime and dey didn't catch 'em neither. The patrollers sho' watched the streets. But when dey caught any of master's niggers without passes, dey jest locked him up in the guard house and master come down in the mawnin' and git 'em out, but dem ...

— Slave Narratives, Oklahoma - A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From - Interviews with Former Slaves • Various

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