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watch over en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Meanings

1. (idiomatic) To guard and protect.
   • 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. 1967, Richard Brautigan, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace:
   • She stayed up all night to watch over the sick infant.

Forms

Relateds

vigil

Translations (51)

ja 見守る (to guard and protect) · sh čúvati (to guard and protect) · sh bdȅti (to guard and protect) · cmn 守护 (to guard and protect) · ru опека́ть (to guard and protect) · uk наглядати (to guard and protect) · pl czuwać (to guard and protect) · la invīsō (to guard and protect) · uk опікати (to guard and protect) · de wachen (to guard and protect) · fi kaitsea (to guard and protect) · fr veiller (to guard and protect) · akk naṣārum (to guard and protect) · is gæta (to guard and protect) · hy հսկել (to guard and protect) · ko 지키다 (to guard and protect) · sh бдје̏ти (to guard and protect) · ga aireachasaigh (to guard and protect) · arn gvneytunien (to guard and protect) · sh про̀бдјети (to guard and protect) · sh бде̏ти (to guard and protect) · ru наблюдать за (to guard and protect) · frm veigler (to guard and protect) · sh чу́вати (to guard and protect) · it vegliare (to guard and protect) · ca vigilar (to guard and protect) · dlm vejur (to guard and protect) · pt cuidar (to guard and protect) · gl velar (to guard and protect) · qu chapatiyay (to guard and protect) · de behüten (to guard and protect) · sh bdjȅti (to guard and protect) · sh про̀бдети (to guard and protect) · cu бъдѣти (to guard and protect) · yi וואַכן (to guard and protect) · it piantonare (to guard and protect) · la servō (to guard and protect) · sh pròbdeti (to guard and protect) · nl bewaken (to guard and protect) · sh причу́вати (to guard and protect) · njo-jgl anük (to guard and protect) · la asservō (to guard and protect) · nl bewaren (to guard and protect) · sh pròbdjeti (to guard and protect) · rup aveglju (to guard and protect) · eo gardi (to guard and protect) · nl behoeden (to guard and protect) · sq ruaj (to guard and protect) · sh pričúvati (to guard and protect) · ro păzi (to guard and protect) · cs bdít (to guard and protect)