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watch
noun as in clock worn on body
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noun as in lookout
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alertness, attention, awareness, duty, eye, guard, hawk, heed, inspection, notice, observance, observation, patrol, picket, scrutiny, sentinel, sentry, supervision, surveillance, tab, tout, vigil, vigilance, watchfulness
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verb as in look at
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attend, check out, examine, follow, listen, look, observe, regard, scan, scrutinize, see, stare, view, wait
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case, concentrate, contemplate, eye, eyeball, focus, gaze, inspect, mark, mind, note, peer, pipe, rubberneck, scope, spy
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eagle eye, get a load of, give the once-over, have a look-see, keep tabs on, pay attention, take a gander, take in, take notice
verb as in look after; guard
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mind, oversee, patrol, police, superintend, tend, watch over
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Example Sentences
Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.
I watch every episode alone on my couch and I just sit there and laugh, and laugh.
Angry Birds at its simplest was the same way, though you wanted to watch things collapse and explode.
The inability to do anything besides binge-watch entire seasons on Netflix.
I seized the opportunity to watch what I supposed would be a most interesting interview, from behind a curtain.
He produced a watch and studied it frowningly, then dismissed us and the recital of our troubles with a ponderous gesture.
He is a hypochondriac now and would keep a close watch on his heir's health and habits; you may be sure of that.
He heard Mohammedans alluding to a Brahmin as a leader—so might a wolf and a snake make common alliance against a watch dog.
His duty it was to stand at the head of the scalding trough, watch in hand, to "time" the length of the scald, crying "Hog in!"
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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