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Stand watch   /stænd wɑtʃ/   Listen
Stand watch

verb
1.
Watch over so as to protect.  Synonyms: keep guard, stand guard, stand sentinel.  "The jewels over which they kept guard were stolen"





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"Stand watch" Quotes from Famous Books



... who stood without, my old lord of Aragon, uncle and protector to my lady. We met with silent greeting as his picked men of arms filed in after him till the little court was full; then some were despatched to possess the guard quarters and the drunken soldiery, others to stand watch over the serving-folk. ...
— A Williams Anthology - A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 • Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park


Words linked to "Stand watch" :   stand guard, guard


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