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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
Example Sentences
Lee played Mookie, a pizza delivery worker who watches his community reach a boiling point with the Italian owners of a pizzeria.
Hayes watched Slovenia’s run to the quarterfinals in EuroBasket with a careful eye knowing that joining the team could be a possibility for him in the future.
The executives then filed out into the Square to watch a giant video of themselves ringing the bell, among confused tourists.
Outside the Church of Our Lady of Candelaria in Caracas, thousands of people watched the canonization ceremony in Rome -- about dawn in Venezuela -- on a large screen.
At Yorkshire's home ground, Headingley, he paid for a balcony outside the dressing room for the players to sit and watch the game.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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