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guard against

guard against verb: to prevent something unpleasant from happening.

Verb

guard against (third-person singular simple present guards against, present participle guarding against, simple past and past participle guarded against)

  1. (transitive) To prevent something unpleasant from happening.

guard against meaning in Tamil and Sanskrit

guard against in Tamil

கா

guard against in Sanskrit

to guard against, ward off, keep away, prevent, frustrate, injure
रक्ष् rakṣ

Forms of guard against

third-person singular presentguards against
present participleguarding against
past participleguarded against
pastguarded against

Questions about guard against

What does guard against mean?
Guard against means to prevent something unpleasant from happening.
What is guard against in Tamil?
Guard against in Tamil is கா. See Guard against meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is guard against?
Guard against is a verb.
What is the past tense of guard against?
The past tense of guard against is guarded against.

Words near guard against in the dictionary

  1. guaras
  2. Guarayu
  3. Guarañoca
  4. Guarañol
  5. guard
  6. guard against
  7. guard band
  8. guard bands
  9. guard book
  10. guard books
  11. guard cell

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Adapted from Wiktionary: guard against (page history and authors); guard against (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); रक्ष् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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