Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

keep one's guard up

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.21 in modern English

Syllables
keep- one's -guard up
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To be careful and alert to the possibility of danger.

Inflected Forms

keeps one's guard up (present, singular) keeping one's guard up (participle, present) kept one's guard up (participle, past) kept one's guard up (past)

Synonyms

have one's guard up be on one's guard

Antonyms

lower one's guard let one's guard down

Questions

What does keep one's guard up mean?
To be careful and alert to the possibility of danger.

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