watch over

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.
- 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.

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: kaitsea (fi)
French: veiller (fr)
Galician: velar (gl)
German: behüten (de), wachen (de)
Icelandic: gæta
Irish: aireachasaigh
Italian: vegliare (it), piantonare (it)
Japanese: 見守る (ja) (mimamoru)
Korean: 지키다 (ko) (jikida)
Latin: servō (la), 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:
Cyrillic: бде̏ти, бдје̏ти, про̀бдети, про̀бдјети, чу́вати, причу́вати

Roman: bdȅti (sh), bdjȅti (sh), pròbdeti (sh), pròbdjeti (sh), čúvati (sh), pričúvati (sh)
Spanish: vigilar (es), celar (es), amparar (es)
Ukrainian: опікати (opikaty), наглядати (nahljadaty)
Yiddish: וואַכן (vakhn)

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