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  1. intransitive verb To look or observe attentively or carefully; be closely observant: watching for trail markers.
  2. intransitive verb To look and wait expectantly or in anticipation: watch for an opportunity.
  3. intransitive verb To act as a spectator; look on: stood by the road and watched.
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  • Let's also say your watch is actually worth a damn: you get a loan for two, maybe two-fifty. —  Slate Magazine
  • The date continues to advance correctly while the watch is asleep. —  We Blog A Lot
  • Everything else that went wrong on his watch was the fault of Congress, or of —  At-Largely
  • She wouldn't miss one gear from the watch, not her, but she knew the watch was the dearest treasure Gran owned. —  Popular in the last 8 hours
  • Students in her watch were among those McWhorter had to turn away.
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guard ·  ring ·  one ·  gun ·  clothe ·  clock ·  shoot ·  call ·  station ·  look ·  train ·  car

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watch:   watches ·  watching ·  watched
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English wacchen, from Old English wæccan, to watch, be awake; see weg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English wacche, wecche, from Anglo-Saxon wæcce, watch, watching, from wacan, wake: see wake.
  2. from Middle English wacchen, wecchen, from Anglo-Saxon wæccan, watch, wake: see wake, v., and cf. watch, n.
 

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