keep watch

Verb

Meaning

keep watch (third-person singular simple present keeps watch, present participle keeping watch, simple past and past participle kept watch)

(idiomatic, intransitive) To guard; to watch over someone or something.

Synonym: stand guard

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Examples

The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us. Gregory Colbert

There 's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. Charles Dibdin

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act...The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach. Houseman's test for great poetry. A. E. Housman

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. A. E. Housman

Keep watch for the appearing mushroom. Sicilian Proverb

Let no man glory in the greatness of his mind, but rather keep watch o'er his wits. Norse Proverb

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