Crossword clues for warded
warded
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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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To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.
Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight To ward the same.
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To defend; to protect.
Tell him it was a hand that warded him From thousand dangers.
--Shak. To defend by walls, fortifications, etc. [Obs.]
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To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.
--Daniel.The pointed javelin warded off his rage.
--Addison.It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections.
--I. Watts.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: ward)
Usage examples of "warded".
Standing on the city walls, mirror raised to catch the late afternoon light, Arra could see past the pockets of battle, past the men and women struggling to defeat an enemy their superior in both strength and numbers, past the black tents well warded against magical attack, and into the swath of destruction that stretched back to the border.
Attacks from enemy bases to the eastward, particularly from Havre, were warded off, and in the west an Allied naval bombarding squadron co-operated later with the American Army in the capture of Cherbourg.
March Brume occupied a stretch of rocky beach along a cove warded by huge cliffs to the north and a broad salt marsh to the south.
Spreading his hands in front of him, Allard warded Kurman and Cleer away.
The foe had taken them out in quick gazer strikes, like the one Alex had barely warded off.
He told us triumphantly that he had beaten the rascally postillions, and had warded their stones off.
At the Scholia on Leal, spells that warded the college fragmented in rainbow bursts of color, startling apprentices, journeymen, and Masters alike.
He was good for headache and warded off thought when Eddi ratiocinated about sparrows.
Argen - and Smithcraft, which it warded - was the only clan strong enough to raise him.
King of Kings might do is hopeless, or as near as makes no difference, he being warded against such snoopery as you are.
Risingh, nimbly raising his sword, warded it off so narrowly, that, glancing on one side, it shaved away a huge canteen in which he carried his liquor,--thence pursuing its trenchant course, it severed off a deep coat-pocket, stored with bread and cheese,--which provant, rolling among the armies, occasioned a fearful scrambling between the Swedes and Dutchmen, and made the general battle to wax more furious than ever.
A man pitted against a Termagant stood no chance, for the scales warded off bullets as well as any blow the man might have strength enough to deal.
In the span of three breaths, he was warded with spells that would protect him against mental, magical, and physical attacks.
Though any interior room could be warded and drained for use by air breathers, cephalids like Llawan lived in the submerged chambers constructed on the canyon walls.
But these stay-at-homes with the Hall-Sun were stayed by the command of Thiodolf on the crown of the slope above the dwellings, and stood round about the Speech-Hill, on the topmost of which stood the HallSun, and the wondrous Lamp, and the men who warded her and it.