guard against

phrasal verb

guarded against; guarding against; guards against

: to try to keep (something) from happening

Clean the wound to guard against infection.

That's the sort of thinking we have to guard against.

Examples of guard against in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Her filing asserts that federal courts must be positioned to guard against improper influence by officials in the executive and legislative branches. —Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025

Require transparent incident reports, public performance reviews, and guard against establishing a monopoly. —Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2025

Veteran Mike Caliendo started in place of Smith at right guard against the Cowboys. —Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 3 Dec. 2025

The use of pesticides in agriculture has always meant managing a tricky balance—protecting the harvest and making sure essential produce gets to market, while guarding against the possibility that at least some of that produce carries toxic chemicals. —Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 26 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for guard against

• recommenced
• recompensed
• commenced
• condensed
• dispensed
• expensed
• incensed
• unfenced
• fenced
• sensed
• tensed