watch over

English

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.

to guard and protect

Latin: servō, asservō, invīsō
Mapudungun: gvneytunien
Middle French: veigler
Old Church Slavonic: бъдѣти (bŭděti)
Polish: czuwać (pl)
Portuguese: cuidar de
Quechua: chapatiyay
Romanian: păzi (ro)
Russian: опека́ть (ru) (opekátʹ), наблюдать за impf (nabljudatʹ za)
Serbo-Croatian: bdjeti / бдјети, pričuvati / причувати, čuvati / чувати, pričuvati / причувати
Spanish: vigilar (es), celar (es)
Ukrainian: опікати (opikaty), наглядати (nahljadaty)
Yiddish: וואַכן‎ (vakhn)

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