GUARDHOUSES Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

guardhouses

noun

plural of guardhouse

as in hulks

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Noun

Water levels on the Danube River, the second longest in Europe, have dropped so low because of drought that the hulks of dozens of World War II German battleships — and even the remains of an ancient woolly mammoth — are emerging into view.

— CBS News, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of hulks

Noun

Framed in iron, this glass structure is said to be one of the world’s most elegant glasshouses.

— Jeanine Barone, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Start at the outdoor garden to snap photos in front of bright yellow and orange mums, ornamental green cabbages, and a towering pumpkin tree, then go inside to see the historic glasshouses.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 26 Aug. 2025

Definition of glasshouses

Noun

That has changed quietly, with robots now performing important roles in operating rooms, hospital wards, rehabilitation centers, and corridors around the world.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
Nurses are fainting on the wards, children are flopping onto their desks at school.

— Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of wards

Noun

In May, at the manufacturing facility, which stores thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals in pressurized tanks used to produce materials such as plexiglass for fighter jet and commercial aircraft windows, one tank threatened to leak or explode.

— Nilesh Christopher, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
But faced with the quantity and quality of Soviet tanks in the East, and British-American tanks in the West, the tank’s purpose became the achievement of total battlefield supremacy.

— Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026

Definition of tanks

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The final pages offered a physical and philosophical account of the concentration camps that was as disturbing in its implications as the newsreels shown in theatres at the war’s end.

— David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Xinjiang is home to many Uyghurs, a Muslim minority that the Chinese government has subjected to surveillance, forced labor and detainment in concentration camps.

— Hailey Wang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026

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