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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
guarded
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a closely guarded/well-kept secret (=a secret that few people are allowed to know)
▪ The recipe is a closely guarded secret.
cautious/guarded optimism (=the belief that a future situation will be good or better than before, although you cannot be not sure)
▪ The U.N. sees cause for cautious optimism in what has been achieved so far.
▪ He expressed guarded optimism about the company's future.
closely controlled/guarded/monitored etc
▪ Political activity is closely controlled.
jealously guarded
▪ a jealously guarded secret
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
▪ He knew that the routine and itinerary of the Chairman were a closely guarded secret.
▪ Today the locations of many rare or endangered species are closely guarded secrets.
▪ It was not the falcon's nesting site, John wisely keeps all such eyries a closely guarded secret.
▪ The level of marks required for entrance to secondary school is a very closely guarded secret and seldom officially revealed.
▪ In one poem William Ix said that a closely guarded married woman was as bad a prospect as a millpond without fish.
▪ Lifestyles copied from Miami and Fifth Avenue are enjoyed in closely guarded compounds well away from the misery of the slums.
▪ Compiling and using a press list Many organizations have press lists, which they keep as closely guarded secrets.
▪ The companies that administer the warehouses keep details of their contents a closely guarded secret.
jealously
▪ But universities have a considerable and jealously guarded degree of independence.
▪ The river is a jealously guarded preserve and very expensive.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Baker spoke about the project with guarded enthusiasm.
▪ Michael Fallon, MP for Darlington, has given the scheme a guarded welcome.
▪ Their message was expressed in very guarded language.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He knew that the routine and itinerary of the Chairman were a closely guarded secret.
▪ His reaction was a very guarded welcome.
▪ In one poem William Ix said that a closely guarded married woman was as bad a prospect as a millpond without fish.
▪ It was not the falcon's nesting site, John wisely keeps all such eyries a closely guarded secret.
▪ Strangers were rarely seen on that private and closely guarded property.
▪ The faces hold you: guarded, apprehensive, expectant, confident, resolute.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Guarded

Guard \Guard\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Guarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gurding.] [OF. guarder, garder, warder, F. garder, fr. OHG. wart?n to be on the watch, await, G. marten. See Ward, v. & n., and cf. Guard, n.]

  1. To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; to protect by attendance; to accompany for protection; to care for.

    For Heaven still guards the right.
    --Shak.

  2. To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

  3. To protect the edge of, esp. with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.

    The body of your discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither.
    --Shak.

  4. To fasten by binding; to gird. [Obs.]
    --B. Jonson.

    Syn: To defend; protect; shield; keep; watch.

Guarded

Guarded \Guard"ed\, a. Cautious; wary; circumspect; as, he was guarded in his expressions; framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were guarded. -- Guard"edly, adv. -- Guard"ed*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
guarded

c.1500, past participle adjective from guard (v.). Meaning "reserved and cautious in speech, behavior, etc." is from 1728. Related: Guardedly; guardedness.

Wiktionary
guarded
  1. 1 cautious; restrained. 2 Watched over; supervised. v

  2. (en-past of: guard)

WordNet
guarded
  1. adj. very reluctant to give out information [syn: noncommittal, unrevealing]

  2. prudent; "guarded optimism" [syn: restrained]

Wikipedia
Guarded

"Guarded" is a song by the American heavy metal band Disturbed. The song was released on June 28, 2005 as a promotional single from their third studio album, Ten Thousand Fists. It was the first single featuring their new bassist John Moyer. "Guarded" is featured in the soundtrack of the film Saw III.

Usage examples of "guarded".

On the dressing table, ably guarded by a dark Regency armchair cushioned in yet another floral, sat an assemblage of antique silver-hair accessories and crystal perfume flacons, the grouping flanked by two small lamps, everything centered around a gold Empire vanity mirror.

But against the defects of this quality he was guarded by the openness of mind which results from the effort to improve and to keep abreast of the times in which one lives.

None of these countries had prepared for aeronautic warfare on the magnificent scale of the Germans, but each guarded secrets, each in a measure was making ready, and a common dread of German vigour and that aggressive spirit Prince Karl Albert embodied, had long been drawing these powers together in secret anticipation of some such attack.

While he scoured the land along the Nile, behind him the railhead reached Akasha and his rudimentary camp was transformed into an impregnable fortress and staging station, guarded by artillery and Maxim machine-gun detachments.

Clerkships like the one Albe Cytel had held were as jealously guarded as any guild apprenticeship, and for the same reasons: their holders had an advantage over the hundreds of others who tried to make their living in the trade, and that advantage could be passed from mother to child.

Outside again, she led Alec to a heavily guarded gate near the Palace.

I was allowed to communicate with no one, and even the alguazil who guarded me was forbidden, under pain of death, to speak to me.

Elders and the others climbed the ladder and moved around the openwork spirit that guarded the door, the Amar broke apart into family groupings and contested peacefully for seats around the Gawer.

Matrassyl, and the courts and passages of the Ottassol palace were guarded by human and ancipital sentries.

Its territory was vast, aye, but it was poor in arable land, as Una had admitted from the outset, the most of that and all of the best being centered in the valley guarded by her round tower.

Aristi are considered gods in me Arcadian realm and are guarded zealously by patria who would gladly die for them.

The Karens built small, closely guarded fires, and Batman gratefully accepted a bowl of hot rice mixed with chunks of some unidentifiable meat, the origins of which he refused to question.

Tram Bir exchanged a few words with the soldiers who guarded the entrance.

Until two years ago, Bling had told them, the park had been closed completely to the general public, the lovely quiet of the lake undisturbed by rented rowboats, the massive gates barred and guarded.

A British squadron, however, blockaded the mouths of those rivers, which measure caused such distress to Hamburg and Bremen, that they appealed to the King of Prussia for protection, as one of those sovereigns who guarded the neutrality of the empire.