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