watch over
watch over verb: to guard and protect.
Verb
watch over (third-person singular simple present watches over, present participle watching over, simple past and past participle watched over)
- To guard and protect.
- She stayed up all night to watch over the sick infant.
- 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.1967, Richard Brautigan, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
watch over meaning in Urdu and Sanskrit
watch over in Urdu
- نگاہ میں رکھنا
watch over in Sanskrit
- to watch over, be attentive to or intent on, care for, provide, superintend
- जागृ jāgṛ
Forms of watch over
| third-person singular present | watches over |
|---|---|
| present participle | watching over |
| past participle | watched over |
| past | watched over |
Questions about watch over
- What does watch over mean?
- Watch over means to guard and protect.
- What is watch over in Urdu?
- Watch over in Urdu is نگاہ میں رکھنا. See Watch over meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is watch over?
- Watch over is a verb.
- What is the past tense of watch over?
- The past tense of watch over is watched over.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: watch over (page history and authors); watch over (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); जागृ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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