English Dictionary

guard

/ɡɑːd/

verb

To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend. / To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

The security guard is responsible for guarding the entrance.

意味（1）

To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.

For Heaven still guards the right.

意味（2）

To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

Guard the prisoner.

意味（3）

To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.

Careful people guard against mistakes.

意味（4）

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.

意味（5）

To fasten by binding; to gird.