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Meaning of keep watch | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To guard; to watch over someone or something.

idiomatic, intransitive

Equivalents

Ελληνικά αγρυπνώ
Galego vixiar
日本語 ウオッチ
Latina excubo wacto
Polski wartować
Українська пильнувати
Tiếng Việt canh chừng canh phòng

Examples

“In the afternoon the sun shone hot in their faces, for there were no trees to offer them shade; so that before night Dorothy and Toto and the Lion were tired, and lay down upon the grass and fell asleep, with the Woodman and the Scarecrow keeping watch.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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