oversaw

Verb

oversee (third-person singular simple present oversees, present participle overseeing, simple past oversaw, past participle overseen)

1. (literally, transitive) To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
   • It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds.

   Synonyms:

   superintend

3. (transitive) To inspect, examine.
   • Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
   • Thereat the Elfe did blush in priuitee, / And turnd his face away; but she the same / Dissembled faire, and faynd to ouersee.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
5. (transitive) To observe secretly or unintentionally.