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Warded (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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| podobné slovo | definícia |
forwarded (mass) | forwarded
- postúpený, posunutý |
awarded (encz) | awarded,odměněný adj: Zdeněk Brožawarded,udělen |
forwarded (encz) | forwarded,postoupený adj: luke |
no good deed goes unrewarded (encz) | no good deed goes unrewarded,za dobrotu na žebrotu [fráz.] Pino |
rewarded (encz) | rewarded,odměněný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
unrewarded (encz) | unrewarded,neodměněný Jaroslav Šedivý |
Awarded (gcide) | Award \A*ward"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Awarded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Awarding.] [OF. eswarder to look at, consider, decide,
judge; es (L. ex) + warder, garder, to observe, take heed,
keep, fr. OHG. wart[=e]n to watch, guard. See Ward.]
To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or
apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to
adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the
complainant.
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To review
The wrongful sentence, and award a new. --Dryden.
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Forwarded (gcide) | Forward \For"ward\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forwarded; p. pr. &
vb. n. Forwarding.]
1. To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to
quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant;
to forward one in improvement.
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2. To send forward; to send toward the place of destination;
to transmit; as, to forward a letter.
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Rewarded (gcide) | Reward \Re*ward"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rewarded; p. pr. & vb.
n. Rewarding.] [OF. rewarder, another form of regarder, of
German origin. The original sense is, to look at, regard,
hence, to regard as worthy, give a reward to. See Ward,
Regard.]
To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a
good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to
compensate.
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After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward,
Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. --Piers
Plowman.
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Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded
thee evil. --1 Sam. xxiv.
17.
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I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will
reward them that hate me. --Deut. xxxii.
41.
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God rewards those that have made use of the single
talent. --Hammond.
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Swarded (gcide) | Swarded \Sward"ed\, a.
Covered with sward. --Mrs. Browning.
[1913 Webster]Sward \Sward\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Swarded; p. pr. & vb.
n. Swarding.]
To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward.
--Mortimer.
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Unrewarded (gcide) | Unrewarded \Unrewarded\
See rewarded. |
Unwarded (gcide) | Unwarded \Unwarded\
See warded. |
unrewarded (wn) | unrewarded
adj 1: having acquired or gained nothing; "the returned from the
negotiations empty-handed" [syn: empty-handed,
unrewarded] |
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