watch over

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

watch over (third-person singular simple present watches over, present participle watching over, simple past and past participle watched over)

1. (idiomatic) To guard and protect.

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

   • 1967, Richard Brautigan, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace:

     I like to think / (it has to be!) / of a cybernetic ecology / where we are free of our labors / and joined back to nature, / returned to our mammal / brothers and sisters, / and all watched over / by machines of loving grace.

Translations

to guard and protect

• Armenian: հսկել (hy) (hskel)
• Aromanian: aveglju
• Catalan: vigilar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 守护 (zh) (shǒuhù)

• Czech: bdít (cs)
• Dalmatian: vejur
• Dutch: bewaren (nl), bewaken (nl), behoeden (nl)
• Esperanto: gardi (eo)
• Finnish: vahdata (fi), kaita (fi)
• French: veiller (fr)
• Galician: velar
• German: behüten (de), wachen (de)
• Icelandic: gæta
• Irish: aireachasaigh
• Italian: vegliare (it), piantonare
• Japanese: 見守る (ja) (mimamoru)
• Korean: 지키다 (ko) (jikida)
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• Latin: servō, asservō, invīsō
• Mapudungun: gvneytunien
• Middle French: veigler
• Old Church Slavonic: бъдѣти (bŭděti)
• Polish: czuwać (pl)
• Portuguese: cuidar (pt)
• Quechua: chapatiyay
• Romanian: păzi (ro)
• Russian: опека́ть (ru) (opekátʹ), наблюдать за impf (nabljudatʹ za)
• Serbo-Croatian: bdjeti / бдјети, pričuvati / причувати, čuvati / чувати, pričuvati / причувати
• Spanish: vigilar (es), celar (es)
• Ukrainian: опікати (opikaty), наглядати (nahljadaty)
• Yiddish: וואַכן (vakhn)

See also

• vigil

Anagrams

• overwatch