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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overwatch .
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Examples
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He is my overlord, and he has overwatched me in the fosterage where he placed me when my father died.
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Their emplaced sniper/killer teams SKTs overwatched the house long enough for the suspects to foolishly return to it and stroll right into the dragnet waiting for them.
Meet The Amazing Buck Sargent membrain 2006
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Their emplaced sniper/killer teams SKTs overwatched the house long enough for the suspects to foolishly return to it and stroll right into the dragnet waiting for them.
Archive 2006-04-01 membrain 2006
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Some there are (as Fenestella for one) who affirm that Marius knew nothing of the fight, but, overwatched and spent with hard duty, had reposed himself, when the signal was given, beneath some shade, and was hardly to be awakened at the flight of his men.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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"That large spot before your eyes is a rare bird, known as an overwatched starship captain."
The Fate of the Phoenix Culbreath, Myrna 1979
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Occasionally, though less often, one of the doors at either flank of the house, also overwatched by shining orbs, opened to discharge an early departure.
Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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Yesterday she was an overwatched girl, looking yearningly at
Who Cares? a story of adolescence Cosmo Hamilton 1910
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It was Hopkins's custom to keep the poor wretches waking, in order to prevent them from having encouragement from the devil, and, doubtless, to put infirm, terrified, overwatched persons in the next state to absolute madness; and for the same purpose they were dragged about by their keepers till extreme weariness and the pain of blistered feet might form additional inducements to confession.
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Then they read their nativities in the planets and felt how great must be the state overwatched by such resplendent servitors.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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At such hour the overwatched Three Hundred are not yet stirring: none but some Clerks, a company of National Guards; and M. de
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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