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Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'guard'

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1. (noun) guard
a person who keeps watch over something or someone
Synonyms: guard duty, safety, sentry go, safeguard, precaution, safety device, sentry duty

2. (noun) guard
the person who plays that position on a football team
Synonyms: guard duty, safety, sentry go, safeguard, precaution, safety device, sentry duty

3. (noun) guard, safety, safety device
a device designed to prevent injury or accidents
Synonyms: prophylactic, sentry go, condom, guard duty, safety, precaution, safe, guard, safeguard, sentry duty, refuge, rubber, base hit, safety device

4. (noun) guard
a posture of defence in boxing or fencing
Synonyms: guard duty, safety, sentry go, safeguard, precaution, safety device, sentry duty

5. (noun) guard
the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team
Synonyms: guard duty, safety, sentry go, safeguard, precaution, safety device, sentry duty

6. (noun) guard
a military unit serving to protect some place or person
Synonyms: guard duty, safety, sentry go, safeguard, precaution, safety device, sentry duty

7. (noun) precaution, safeguard, guard
a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
Synonyms: guard duty, safety, precaution, care, caution, safeguard, sentry duty, forethought, guard, sentry go, safe-conduct, safety device

8. (noun) guard duty, guard, sentry duty, sentry go
the duty of serving as a sentry
Synonyms: guard duty, safety, precaution, safeguard, sentry duty, guard, sentry go, safety device

9. (noun) guard
(American football) a position on the line of scrimmage
Synonyms: guard duty, safety, sentry go, safeguard, precaution, safety device, sentry duty

10. (verb) guard
a position on a basketball team
Synonyms: guard duty, safety, sentry go, safeguard, precaution, safety device, sentry duty

11. (verb) guard
to keep watch over
Synonyms: ward, defend, hold

12. (verb) guard, ward
watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect
Synonyms: ward, guard, defend, hold

13. (verb) defend, guard, hold
protect against a challenge or attack
Synonyms: fight, book, retain, moderate, view as, support, apply, hold back, harbour, take hold, bind, deem, hold up, arrest, guard, take, have, concord, check, make, fend for, take for, go for, throw, defy, control, harbor, oppose, keep, obligate, ward, carry, give, adjudge, entertain, nurse, accommodate, represent, curb, defend, fight back, confine, have got, restrain, withstand, agree, hold in, halt, contain, obtain, maintain, fight down, oblige, concur, keep back, sustain, prevail, reserve, admit, hold, declare, champion, bear

14. (verb) guard
take precautions in order to avoid some unwanted consequence
Synonyms: ward, defend, hold

Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'guard'

English Synonyms and Antonyms

1. guard
The weak may speak or act in defense of the strong; none but the powerful can assure others of protection. A defense is ordinarily against actual attack; protection is against possible as wel
Synonyms: defense, apology, guard, rampart, shelter, bulwark, justification, resistance, shield, fortress, protection, safeguard, vindication
Antonyms: abandonment, betrayal, capitulation, desertion, flight, surrender

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