Guard
Guard verb - To drive danger or attack away from.
Load
Load verb - To place a weight or burden on.
How words are described
| fellow | fellow guard | fellow load |
| old | old guard | old load |
| full | full guard | full load |
| special | special guard | special load |
| Other adjectives: regular, certain, single, heavy, small, actual, entire, real, large, big, huge, new, giant. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
-
While she was mutating into an alien, she gained the ability to do complex equations but became even more of a load since they had to guard her and confine her to quarters.
Source: Series / Stargate Universe -
In the first book, a security guard at the casino is about to grab Jason for having a lucky streak (although Jason is using Mind over Matter to load the dice).
Source: Literature / Deathworld - IG players eventually got the bone tossed in a big way during the last few years as they got the mother load of Apocalypse releases and the new guard codex not only resolves the Annihilate problem but also allows guard players to use their Forge World goodies in normal games.
Source: Butt Monkey / Tabletop Games
Cite this Source
Load and Guard. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/guard/load
Guard & Load. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/guard/load>.
Load or Guard. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/guard/load.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "guard" and "load" have occurred on timeline