Word: guarded
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: guar
ded
Definition: Simple past tense and past participle of guard; watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect
Morphemes:
Affix: guard
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: guarde
Language: fro
Decoded: guarde
Meaning: a guardian, warden, keeper
Affix: -ed
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.