Warded

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ward \Ward\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Warded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Warding}.] [OE. wardien, AS. weardian to keep, protect; akin
     to OS. ward?n to watch, take care, OFries. wardia, OHG.
     wart?n, G. warten to wait, wait on, attend to, Icel. var?a to
     guarantee defend, Sw. v[*a]rda to guard, to watch; cf. OF.
     warder, of German origin. See {Ward}, n., and cf. {Award},


     {Guard}, {Reward}.]
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     1. To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a
        specific sense, to guard during the day time.
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              Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight
              To ward the same.                     --Spenser.
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     2. To defend; to protect.
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              Tell him it was a hand that warded him
              From thousand dangers.                --Shak.
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     3. To defend by walls, fortifications, etc. [Obs.]
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     4. To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything
        mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
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              Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.
                                                    --Daniel.
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              The pointed javelin warded off his rage. --Addison.
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              It instructs the scholar in the various methods of
              warding off the force of objections.  --I. Watts.
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