Outguard
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Outguard is a noun meaning (military) A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy.
Meaning
(military) A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy.
More Meanings
- (by extension) Anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended.
- To serve as an outguard at.
- To do a better job of guarding than.
Example Sentences
The Wildcats outplayed, outfought, outgarded and, greatest of all, outscored Waterloo.
To most of them Dong Tre was only a place somewhere other than the port that they outguarded.
He outguessed, outscored, and outguarded the Tiger, though the latter in a guard position showed that he was a real basketball man.
Slanting in echelon NE, the three Jap perimeters outguarded four P Perimeters some distance south which had defeated the Aussie tank attack 12 Jan.
Word Forms
- outguards
- outguarding
- outguarded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include guardsman, outsentry, bodyguard, guard, watch, underguardian.
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