Unguard

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To deprive of a guard transitive
  2. 2
    to leave unprotected. transitive

    "a. 1768, Laurence Sterne, sermon When the gay and smiling aspect of things has begun to leave the passages to a man's heart thus thoughtlessly unguarded"

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"a. 1768, Laurence Sterne, sermon When the gay and smiling aspect of things has begun to leave the passages to a man's heart thus thoughtlessly unguarded"

Etymology

From un- + guard.

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