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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

... cathedral itself is a noble Gothic structure, reputed the finest of the kind in Spain. In the chapels allotted to the various saints are some of the most magnificent paintings which Spanish art has produced. Here are to be seen the far-famed 'Angel of the Guard,' by Murillo, his 'Saint Anthony at Devotion,' the celestial spirits hovering around him, and Saint Thomas of Villa Nueva bestowing Charity'; there are also some pictures by Soberan [? Zurbaran] of almost inestimable ...

— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow

... no sense in putting your husband on his guard. Let him think that we are both agreed to the year's probation. I'll look up things and engage passage. I'll do that this afternoon. Tonight I'll go to Hot Springs to see my father and get money. My own balance is very low, unfortunately. Day after tomorrow I'll be in ...

— We Three • Gouverneur Morris

... Guardians of the Crown (1817; volume 2 unfinished and published in his literary remains, 1854), he strikes an individual note. This novel is one of the best products of German Romanticism. The Guardians are a mysterious secret organization who guard the imperial crown in a fairy castle and are favorable to the ancient house of Hohenstaufen but inimical to the ruling Habsburgs. The basis is the newly awakening ideal of German unity but Arnim fails to express this clearly, and the concluding motif, ...

— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: - Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English, Volume 5. • Various

... noise of the tramping of great armies across the Old World shook the New, and men in whom the love of fierce fighting was born were stirred to quarrel among themselves. The Rights of Man! How many wrongs have been done under that clause! The Bastille stormed; the Swiss Guard slaughtered; the Reign of Terror, with its daily procession of tumbrels through the streets of Paris; the murder of that amiable and well-meaning gentleman who did his best to atone for the sins of his ancestors; the fearful ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... landed in the bay of Jouan with eleven hundred men and four guns to reconquer France and the sovereignty of the world. Six hundred of his old guard, six score of his Polish light cavalry, three or four hundred Corsican chasseurs: thus did that sublime adventurer embark upon an expedition the most mad, the most daring, the most heroic, the most egotistical, the most tragic and the most glorious which recording Destiny has ever ...

— The Bronze Eagle - A Story of the Hundred Days • Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

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