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misguard

misguard verb: to fail to guard properly.

Verb

misguard (third-person singular simple present misguards, present participle misguarding, simple past and past participle misguarded)

  1. To fail to guard properly.
    • Modern tragedy has aimed at pointing out to men the consequences of their own misconduct, showing the direful effects which ambition, jealousy, love, resentment, and other strong emotions, when misguarded or left unrestrained, produce upon human life.1852, The British Controversialist and Impartial Inquirer, page 288
    • God's life, death should be thy doom for so misguarding thy lord, the anointed of Jehovah!1924, William Canton, The Bible Story, page 206

Forms of misguard

third-person singular presentmisguards
present participlemisguarding
past participlemisguarded
pastmisguarded

Origin of misguard

From mis- + guard.

Questions about misguard

What does misguard mean?
Misguard means to fail to guard properly.
What part of speech is misguard?
Misguard is a verb.
What is the past tense of misguard?
The past tense of misguard is misguarded.

Words near misguard in the dictionary

  1. misgrows
  2. misgrowth
  3. misgrowths
  4. misgrudge
  5. misgrudged
  6. misguard
  7. misguarded
  8. misguarding
  9. misguards
  10. misguess
  11. misguessed

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