Antonyms for guard
gɑrdguard

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1. guardnoun

   Synonyms:
   fender

2. guardnoun

   A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.

   The motorcycle mechanic removed the damaged chain guard.

   Synonyms:
   protection

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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 well as actual dangers. We speak of defense against an assault, protection from the cold. Vindication is a triumphant defense of character and conduct against charges of error or wrong. Compare APOLOGY.

   Antonyms:
   abandonment, betrayal, capitulation, desertion, flight, surrender

   Synonyms:
   apology, bulwark, defense, fortress, justification, protection, rampart, resistance, safeguard, shelter, shield, vindication

   Preposition:
   Defense against assault or assailants; in law, defense to an action, from the testimony.

Matched Categories

1. • Act
   • Basketball Player
   • Defender
   • Device
   • Lineman
   • Measure
   • Military Unit
   • Posture
   • Protect
   • Watch

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1. guardnoun

   a person who keeps watch over something or someone

   Synonyms:
   guard duty, safety, sentry go, safeguard, precaution, safety device, sentry duty

2. guardnoun

   the person who plays that position on a football team

   "the left guard was injured on the play"

   Synonyms:
   guard duty, safety, sentry go, safeguard, precaution, safety device, sentry duty

3. guard, safety, safety devicenoun

   a device designed to prevent injury or accidents

   Synonyms:
   prophylactic, sentry go, condom, guard duty, safety, precaution, safe, safeguard, sentry duty, refuge, rubber, base hit, safety device

4. guardnoun

   a posture of defence in boxing or fencing

   "keep your guard up"

   Synonyms:
   guard duty, safety, sentry go, safeguard, precaution, safety device, sentry duty

5. guardnoun

   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. guardnoun

   a military unit serving to protect some place or person

   Synonyms:
   guard duty, safety, sentry go, safeguard, precaution, safety device, sentry duty

7. precaution, safeguard, guardnoun

   a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.

   "he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution"; "an insurance policy is a good safeguard"; "we let our guard down"

   Synonyms:
   guard duty, safety, precaution, care, caution, safeguard, sentry duty, forethought, sentry go, safe-conduct, safety device

8. guard duty, guard, sentry duty, sentry gonoun

   the duty of serving as a sentry

   "he was on guard that night"

   Synonyms:
   guard duty, safety, precaution, safeguard, sentry duty, sentry go, safety device

9. guardnoun

   (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage

   "guards must be good blockers"

   Synonyms:
   guard duty, safety, sentry go, safeguard, precaution, safety device, sentry duty

10. guardverb

    a position on a basketball team

    Synonyms:
    guard duty, safety, sentry go, safeguard, precaution, safety device, sentry duty

11. guardverb

    to keep watch over

    "there would be men guarding the horses"

    Synonyms:
    ward, defend, hold

12. guard, wardverb

    watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect

    "guard my possessions while I'm away"

    Synonyms:
    ward, defend, hold

13. defend, guard, holdverb

    protect against a challenge or attack

    "Hold that position behind the trees!"; "Hold the bridge against the enemy's attacks"

    Synonyms:
    fight, book, retain, moderate, view as, support, apply, hold back, harbour, take hold, bind, deem, hold up, arrest, 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. guardverb

    take precautions in order to avoid some unwanted consequence

    "guard against becoming too friendly with the staff"; "guard against infection"

    Synonyms:
    ward, defend, hold

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1. guardnoun

   Synonyms:
   guardsman, watch, watchman, sentinel, patrol, sentry, picket, convoy, escort, body-guard, defense, protection, shield, safeguard, bulwark, armor, attention, heed, watch, circumspection

   Associated words:
   cordon

2. guardverb

   Antonyms:
   expose

   Synonyms:
   protect, defend, shield, shelter, fortify, preserve

How to use guard in a sentence?

1. Eddy Arriola:

   The old guard still wants heads on the block and Marines on the beach, but they don't seem to have realized that the world had changed, the PACs are raising peanuts compared to the business interests that are lining up.

2. Missouri President Tim Wolfe:

   My behavior seemed like I did not care, that was not my intention. I was caught off-guard in that moment. Nonetheless, had I gotten out of the car to acknowledge the students and talk with them, perhaps we would n’t be where we are today.

3. Reid Thompson:

   I was informed that Finn had been causing some chaos as he chased a deer along the road, through the hospital grounds and back onto the road. They tangled for a bit, up and over a guard rail and down onto the ice … eventually the deer got away and Finn gave up the chase.

4. Diman Bayeez:

   I was very poor. I have schizophrenia and was just diagnosed with blood cancer, and my only daughter wasn't treating me well. I was borrowing money from people for the treatment. That was in June 2014, and she described her situation to a cab driver named Mahmoud in her home city of Kirkuk. He was ISIS and said if I joined, they would treat me well and pay me, she says. I said I would join on one condition : That they make me a suicide bomber and put me out of my misery. Mahmoud was killed fighting in Hawija, and two ISIS members found her number in his phone. She – along with her now ex-husband – were recruited. K.S. says she did not receive any formal training as a combatant, and did not pledge allegiance to ISIS, but admits that she allowed two militants to stay at her home – she now suspects that one was a spy for the Kurdish security forces. But when she was scheduled to put on the suicide vest, she got cold feet. She fled with the idea of seeking asylum in Europe, but the Kurds picked her up before she could leave. I told them I did all these bad things I didn't do because I wanted to be executed. I still wanted to die, K.S. says, saying that she attempted to kill herself in jail, too, with a kitchen knife. Now Iam thankful to God. I know I have committed no crime. Kurdish authorities beg to differ. According to the deputy manager of the correctional center, Zhino Azad, K.S. was deeply entrenched in ISIS, coordinating for their agents and being a guard at their female prisons – possibly filled with captured Yazidi sex slaves. Even her daughter, a lawyer, is terrified of her, Zhino Azad tells FoxNews.com. She is … a little psychotic. That's the type of people ISIS takes advantage of. K.S. does n’t mind prison at all. It is like heaven in this jail, she says. Here, she is safe from ISIS, is fed and receives medical treatment. I get to read the Koran all day and sleep, K.S. says with a bright smile. And I interpret dreams for the other women. A.H., a 35-year-old mother with a small tribal tattoo on the tip of her nose, also spoke to FoxNews.com. She was issued a life sentence, which was reduced to 20 years, then 15, because she has young children -- six of them who are between 5 and 16 years old. They are being looked after by the second of her husband's four wives. He is in jail now too, she says. At first, A.H. maintains that she was working at a civilian hospital that was controlled by ISIS, but that she never treated wounded fighters, but it does n’t take long for her to let her guard down, especially after the prison official with us begins wandering in and out of the room. I went to ISIS Diman Bayeez and said I would do anything, clean hospitals, if they gave me a salary – $ 260 a month, she says. So I was setting up IVs and injections for the fighters. While she admits to having sworn allegiance to the Caliphate, A.H. also claims she was a spy for Iraqi intelligence, and, fearful that ISIS members would find out, she fled to Kurdistan in early 2016. We have problems, especially with the new prisoners, radicalizing others, so we try to keep the terrorists separate. - Diman Bayeez, manager of the Women and Childrens Prison of Erbil She says all evidence of her spying was taken from her at an Iraqi Army checkpoint. Of course I regret [ helping ISIS ]. But my family was hungry. My husband was old, she pleads. I feel betrayed. They took my phone, my proof I was helping them. They all say they aren't guilty.

5. Virgil:

   Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.

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