Guard \Guard\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Guarded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Gurding.] [OF. guarder, garder, warder, F. garder, fr. OHG.
wart?n to be on the watch, await, G. marten. See Ward, v. &
n., and cf. Guard, n.]
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; to accompany for protection; to care for.
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For Heaven still guards the right. --Shak.
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2. To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain
from acts of violence, or the like.
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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 is sometime guarded with
fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on
neither. --Shak.
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4. To fasten by binding; to gird. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Syn: To defend; protect; shield; keep; watch.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Guarded \Guard"ed\, a.
Cautious; wary; circumspect; as, he was guarded in his
expressions; framed or uttered with caution; as, his
expressions were guarded. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
guarded
adj 1: very reluctant to give out information [syn: noncommittal,
unrevealing]
2: prudent; "guarded optimism" [syn: restrained]
WordNet (r) 2.0
147 Moby Thesaurus words for "guarded":
Argus-eyed, Olympian, all ears, all eyes, aloof, apprehensive,
armed, arrested, aux aguets, backward, bashful, blank, bridled,
buried, cagey, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, chary,
chilled, chilly, circumspect, cloaked, cold, concealed,
considerate, constrained, controlled, cool, copyrighted, covered,
covert, curbed, custodial, defended, deliberate, detached,
discreet, disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, distant,
eagle-eyed, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, gingerly,
hard of belief, hawk-eyed, heedful, hesitant, hidden, icy,
impassive, impersonal, impervious to persuasion, in check,
in leading strings, in remission, inaccessible, inconvincible,
incredulous, inhibited, introverted, invulnerable, judicious,
keen-eyed, leaving out nothing, leery, lidless, loath, mindful,
modest, noncommittal, obscured, observant, offish, on guard,
on leash, on the lookout, on the watch, open-eyed,
overlooking no possibility, patented, pawky, pent-up, policed,
politic, privy, protected, prudent, regardful, reluctant, remote,
removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, retarded, reticent,
retiring, safe, safeguarded, screened, sharp-eyed, sheltered,
shielded, shrinking, shrouded, shy of belief, skeptical, sleepless,
slow to act, slowed down, standoff, standoffish, subdued,
suppressed, suspecting, suspicious, tentative, thorough,
unadventurous, unaffable, unapproachable, uncommunicative,
uncongenial, unconvincible, uncredulous, undaring, undemonstrative,
under control, under discipline, under restraint, unenterprising,
unexpansive, ungenial, unpersuadable, unpersuasible, unprecipitate,
unwilling to accept, vigilant, wary, watchful, with open eyes,
withdrawn
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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