watch over

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To guard and protect

She stayed up all night to watch over the sick infant.

If you watch over someone or something, you pay attention to them to make sure that nothing bad happens to them. The guards were originally hired to watch over the houses as they were being built. = watch
guard, protect, supervise
follow with the eyes or the mind; "Keep an eye on the baby, please!"; "The world is watching Sarajevo"; "She followed the men with the binoculars"
watch over

    Turkish pronunciation

    wôç ōvır

    Pronunciation

    /ˈwôʧ ˈōvər/ /ˈwɔːʧ ˈoʊvɜr/

    Etymology

    [ 'wäch, 'woch ] (verb.) before 12th century. Middle English wacchen, from Old English wæccan; more at WAKE.
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