Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive idiomatic English) To watch or protect; to keep safe. 2 (context dated English) To expect. 3 (context dated English) To seek or search for.
WordNet
v. keep under careful scrutiny; "Keep an eye on this prisoner!"
Usage examples of "look after".
But while thus taking care of himself he was not unmindful of his attendant, but sent Randal to look after Linacre and the horses.
I've got the interests of the Town Council to look after in this business.
Good thing youre in my dream, too, Nabber youll look after me, wont you?
Mademoiselle Virginie, missing her friend suddenly, turned back toward the palace to look after her, and was rather surprised to see Brigida slip out of the wicket-gate.
Trudaine, after lingering long to look after it, had returned hastily to the house.
She helped her mother take care of the house and look after the little ones, who tended to blur into an amorphous, nameless face with dull eyes and an upper lip caked with dirt and dried snot.
You will be safe there, and Raven and I can look after you while Jacques joins the men in the hunt for these lost children.
One of the laymen from the Citadel will look after you until she gets here.
I have an entire - and if I may say so - quite fabulous Orbital to look after, not to mention having fifty billion people to tend to.
To run a gigantic ship of such bewildering complexity, to manage its crew, and to look after an enormous complement of passengers of different races, species, mentalities and bodily functions and make them all feel happy, safe and cared for required that Titania be hugely intelligent, kind, wise, caring, serene, warm.
It was a routine planetary survey and they are quite able to look after themselves.
Curdie left him, but slipped into the King's chamber, closed and locked the door, and left the rascals to look after each other.