Definition of guarded

"guarded" in the verb sense

1. guard

to keep watch over

"there would be men guarding the horses"

2. guard, ward

watch over or shield from danger or harm protect

"guard my possessions while I'm away"

3. defend, guard, hold

protect against a challenge or attack

"Hold that position behind the trees!"

"Hold the bridge against the enemy's attacks"

4. guard

take precautions in order to avoid some unwanted consequence

"guard against becoming too friendly with the staff"

"guard against infection"

"guarded" in the adjective sense

1. guarded, restrained

prudent

"guarded optimism"

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Quotations for guarded

He whom love guards, is well guarded. [ Voltaire ]

Individuality is everywhere to be guarded and honored as the root of all good. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone
To reverence what is ancient, and can plead
A course of long observance for its use.
That even servitude, the worst of ills,
Because delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing! [ Cowper ]

Strong are the instincts with which God has guarded the sacredness of marriage. [ Maria M'Intosh ]

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. [ Pope ]

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

People should be guarded against temptation to unlawful pleasures by furnishing them means of innocent ones. [ Channing ]

Having sown the seed of secrecy, it should be properly guarded and not in the least broken; for being broken, it will not prosper. [ Hitopadesa ]

Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds; they ever fly by twilight; they are to be repressed, or at the least well guarded, for they cloud the mind. [ Bacon ]

The habit of exaggeration in language should be guarded against; it misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive; it imposes on us the society of a balloon, when a moderately-sized skull would fill the place much better; it begets much evil in promising what it cannot perform, and we have often found the most glowing declarations of intended good services end in mere Irish vows. [ Eliza Cook ]

guarded in Scrabble®

The word guarded is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters guarded:

GUARDED
(90 = 40 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

guarded

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word guarded

GUARDED
(90 = 40 + 50)
GUARDED
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GUARDED
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GUARDED
(62 = 12 + 50)
GUARDED
(61 = 11 + 50)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In guarded

GUARDED
(90 = 40 + 50)
GUARDED
(86 = 36 + 50)
GUARDED
(86 = 36 + 50)
GUARDED
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GUARDED
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guarded in Words With Friends™

The word guarded is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters guarded:

GUARDED
(95 = 60 + 35)
GUARDED
(95 = 60 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

guarded

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word guarded

GUARDED
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GUARDED
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GUARDED
(89 = 54 + 35)
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GUARDED
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GUARDED
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GUARDED
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GUARDED
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In guarded

GUARDED
(95 = 60 + 35)
GUARDED
(95 = 60 + 35)
GUARDED
(89 = 54 + 35)
GUARDED
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GUARDED
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DRUDGE
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Words within the letters of guarded

2 letter words in guarded (4 words)

3 letter words in guarded (15 words)

5 letter words in guarded (11 words)

6 letter words in guarded (3 words)

7 letter words in guarded (1 word)

guarded + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence guarded

Words that start with guarded (3 words)

Words with guarded in them (2 words)

Words that end with guarded (4 words)

Word Growth involving guarded

Shorter words in guarded

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Longer words containing guarded

bodyguarded

guardedly unguardedly

guardedness

safeguarded

unguarded unguardedly