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/wɑtʃ ˈoʊvər/ Listen

verb

Watch v. i.

To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil. "I have two nights watched with you." "Couldest thou not watch one hour?"

To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel. "Take ye heed, watch and pray." "The Son gave signal high To the bright minister that watched."

To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity. "My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning."

To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever.

(Naut.) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; said of a buoy.

To watch over, to be cautiously observant of; to inspect, superintend, and guard.

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Etymology of 'Watch over'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Watch over" Quotes from Famous Books

... said; "there is a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft to keep watch over the life of poor Jack—and Harry ...

— Jack Harkaway and his son's Escape From the Brigand's of Greece • Bracebridge Hemyng

... patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications, I behold the surest pledges that as on one side no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views, no party animosities will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests, so on another, that the foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the pre-eminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its ...

— Key-Notes of American Liberty • Various

... things, I determined to make provision for those sisters and to undertake their care in every way I could. Furthermore, in order that they might have the greater reverence for me, I arranged to watch over them in person. And since now the persecution carried on by my sons was greater and more incessant than that which I formerly suffered at the hands of my brethren, I returned frequently to the ...

— Historia Calamitatum • Peter Abelard

... find ourselves landed in a cloister of singular beauty. But the rock and the buildings—nowhere better seen than from the Mount of Dol—are still there, a most striking object from every point of the landscape, Saint Michael "in peril of the sea" seeming to watch over the bay which bears his name, as from his height at Glastonbury he seems to watch over the flats and the hills peopled with the names alike of British and of West-Saxon heroes. And the vast expanse of sand brings vividly before us the scene in the Tapestry where the giant strength of the English ...

— Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine • Edward A. Freeman

... made the duty of the medical officer to keep constant watch over all the means and habits of life among the troops,—"to see that all regulations for protecting the health of troops, in barracks, garrisons, stations, or camps, are duly observed." "He is to satisfy himself ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862 • Various

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