guardest

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
   • All of the mountain passes are guarded by troops.
2. (transitive) To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
   • Guard the prisoner.
3. (ambitransitive) To watch by way of caution or defense; to be cautious; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
   • Careful people guard against mistakes.
4. (transitive) To protect the edge of, especially 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.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
5. (transitive) To fasten by binding; to gird.

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