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Definition 2024

watch_over

watch over

English

Verb

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

(idiomatic) To guard and protect.
She stayed up all night to watch over the sick infant.

Translations

to guard and protect

Aromanian: aveglju
Catalan: vigilar (ca)
Czech: bdít (cs)
Dalmatian: vejur
Dutch: bewaren (nl), bewaken (nl), behoeden (nl)
Esperanto: gardi
Finnish: vahdata (fi), kaita (fi)
French: veiller (fr)
German: behüten, wachen (de)
Icelandic: gæta
Irish: aireachasaigh
Italian: vegliare, piantonare
Japanese: みまもる (ja) ‎(mimamoru)
Korean: 지키다 (ko) ‎(jikida)

Latin: servō, asservō, invīsō
Mapudungun: gvneytunien
Middle French: veigler
Old Church Slavonic: бъдѣти ‎(bŭděti)
Polish: czuwać (pl)
Portuguese: cuidar de
Quechua: chapatiyay
Romanian: păzi (ro)
Russian: опека́ть (ru) ‎(opekátʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: bdjeti / бдјети, pričuvati / причувати, čuvati / чувати, pričuvati / причувати
Spanish: vigilar (es), celar (es)
Yiddish: וואַכן ‎(vakhn)

See also

vigil