bewatch

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verb

To keep watch over; guard; observe.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

verbbewatch (third-person singular simple present bewatches, present participle bewatching, simple past and past participle bewatched)

present singular third person bewatches · participle present bewatching · participle past bewatched · past bewatched

  1. transitiveTo keep watch over; guard; observe.

    In hope's corner, on her eyebrow, Lo! the eye of quest (like those Who bewatch the new moon's coming In the Fasting-tide) we've laid.

    2011, The Collected Poems of Hafiz - Page 337
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    Discoursing how they pretended to bewatch and drowne his Maiestie in the Sea comming from Den- marke, with such other wouderfull matters as the like hath not been heard of at any time.

    1867, William Carew Hazlitt, Handbook to the Popular, Poetical and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain

Origin

From be- (“about, over”) + watch. Compare bewake.

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APA

bewatch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bewatch

MLA

“bewatch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bewatch. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bewatch,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bewatch.

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