unguard

== English == === Etymology === From un- +‎ guard. === Verb === unguard (third-person singular simple present unguards, present participle unguarding, simple past and past participle unguarded) (transitive) To deprive of a guard (transitive) to leave unprotected. a. 1768, Laurence Sterne, sermon When the gay and smiling aspect of things has begun to leave the passages to a man's heart thus thoughtlessly unguarded === References === “unguard”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.