Synonyms for guarding

Grammar : Verb

Spell : gahrd

Phonetic Transcription : gɑrd

Top 10 synonyms for guarding

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Définition of guarding

Origin : early 15c., "one who keeps watch," from Middle French garde "guardian, warden, keeper; watching, keeping, custody," from Old French garder "to keep, maintain, preserve, protect" (corresponding to Old North French warder, see gu-), from Frankish *wardon, from Proto-Germanic *wardo- "to guard" (see ward (v.)). Abstract or collective sense of "a keeping, a custody" (as in bodyguard) also is from early 15c. Sword-play and fisticuffs sense is from 1590s. Guard-rail attested from 1860.

verb protect, watch

Example sentences :

The four chairs are still standing round it, as if they were guarding something.
Extract from : « Echoes of the War » by J. M. Barrie

There is some one working for you, guarding you, who desires to remain unknown.
Extract from : « The Avenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim

Then the King's alive, for the other three are guarding him!
Extract from : « The Prisoner of Zenda » by Anthony Hope

For it was the body of Josef, the little servant, slain in guarding the King.
Extract from : « The Prisoner of Zenda » by Anthony Hope

They had been watchdogs through all these years, guarding her from the knowledge of a truth.
Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens

Then it will be our duty to select, if we can, natures which are fitted for the task of guarding the city?
Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato

My apparent condition had naturally led to carelessness in guarding me.
Extract from : « The Historical Nights' Entertainment » by Rafael Sabatini

Besides, she was guarding his business; that was a great comfort.
Extract from : « The Gorgeous Girl » by Nalbro Bartley

She doesn't know anything about this—er—this guarding the house.
Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs

There's no guarding against excesses when you establish a rivalry.
Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever

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