watch over

English

Verb

watch over

1. (idiomatic) To guard and protect.

   She stayed up all night to watch over the sick infant.

Translations

to guard and protect

• Catalan: vigilar (ca)
• Czech: bdít
• Dutch: bewaren, bewaken, behoeden
• Esperanto: gardi
• Finnish: vahdata, kaita
• French: veiller
• Icelandic: gæta
• Italian: vegliare, piantonare
• Japanese: みまもる (mimamoru)
• Korean: 지키다 (jikida)
• Latin: servō, asservō, invīsō

• Mapudungun: gvneytunien
• Middle French: veigler
• Old Church Slavonic: бъдѣти (bŭděti)
• Polish: czuwać
• Quechua: chapatiyay (qu)
• Romanian: păzi
• Russian: опекать (opekát’)
• Serbo-Croatian: bdjeti / бдјети, pričuvati / причувати, čuvati / чувати, pričuvati / причувати
• Spanish: vigilar (es), celar (es)

See also

• vigil