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.
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 (gl)
- German: behüten (de), wachen (de)
- Icelandic: gæta
- Irish: aireachasaigh
- Italian: vegliare (it), piantonare
- Japanese: 見守る (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 (pt)
- Quechua: chapatiyay
- Romanian: păzi (ro)
- Russian: опека́ть (ru) (opekátʹ), наблюдать за impf (nabljudatʹ za)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бдјети, причувати, чувати, причувати
- Roman: bdjeti, pričuvati, čuvati, pričuvati
- Spanish: vigilar (es), celar (es)
- Ukrainian: опікати (opikaty), наглядати (nahljadaty)
- Yiddish: וואַכן (vakhn)
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