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

The team expects Luke Weaver to return from a hamstring strain eventually, but the pen could use another high-leverage arm to guard against burnout down the stretch and in the playoffs. —Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 11 June 2025

The company can also detect attacks that bypass multi-factor authentication and guard against account takeovers. —Elizabeth MacBride, CNBC, 10 June 2025

For more than 30 years, researchers have been trying to boost and guard against the power of future quantum computers. —Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 9 June 2025

Ahmad noted that because Iowa players run such a comparable system, the 49ers have to guard against overrating them. —Matt Barrows, New York Times, 22 May 2025

Rhymes for guard against

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