watch over
verb1
Idiomatic 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:
- Related terms
- vigil