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GUARDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Prudent
Example:
guarded optimism
Synonyms:
guarded; restrained
Classified under:
Similar:
cautious (showing careful forethought)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb guard
Context examples:
Now I see it! My Gennaro! My splendid, beautiful Gennaro, who has guarded me safe from all harm, he did it, with his own strong hand he killed the monster!
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Thereupon the servant knocked in a very guarded manner; the door was opened on the chain; and a voice asked from within, “Is that you, Poole?”
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The spirits that guarded me had provided these moments, or rather hours, of happiness that I might retain strength to fulfil my pilgrimage.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
“The tip was guarded by a disk of cork which we found beside his body,” said the Inspector.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As he talked, Edith wrote his story down, while the Indians listened, and Hans guarded the door for fear the witnesses might bolt.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The Frenchman, whirling up his sword, showed for an instant a chink betwixt his shoulder piece and the rerebrace which guarded his upper arm.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here the seals hauled out, and the old bulls guarded their harems, while the young bulls hauled out by themselves.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
When to-day we meet, I must tell her that for reason which we will not to speak she must not more be of our council, but be simply guarded by us.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And without attempting any farther remonstrance, she left Fanny to her fate, a fate which, had not Fanny's heart been guarded in a way unsuspected by Miss Crawford, might have been a little harder than she deserved; for although there doubtless are such unconquerable young ladies of eighteen (or one should not read about them) as are never to be persuaded into love against their judgment by all that talent, manner, attention, and flattery can do, I have no inclination to believe Fanny one of them, or to think that with so much tenderness of disposition, and so much taste as belonged to her, she could have escaped heart-whole from the courtship (though the courtship only of a fortnight) of such a man as Crawford, in spite of there being some previous ill opinion of him to be overcome, had not her affection been engaged elsewhere.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Their fates, their fortunes, cannot be the same; and had the natural sweet disposition of the one been guarded by a firmer mind, or a happier marriage, she might have been all that you will live to see the other be.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
