Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) To guard and protect.
WordNet
v. follow with the eyes or the mind; "Keep an eye on the baby, please!"; "The world is watching Sarajevo"; "She followed the men with the binoculars" [syn: watch, observe, follow, keep an eye on]
Usage examples of "watch over".
Even so, Hans had left his operations officer in charge below, seated in the command chair to view the screen and keep watch over the rest of the area via his virtual reality helmet.
They were posted here not only to keep watch over Earth, but over the activities of their rivals, the Dirnans, as well.
Keyes was the Runner who had been assigned to watch over Victoria this evening.
Six full-grown and armed warrior-drones set a perimeter and kept watch over the company.
It was funny, she thought, that overnight she'd found a big sister who would watch over her for the rest of her life.
The burden of its supplication was that an ever-merciful and benignant Father of us all would watch over our noble young soldiers and aid, comfort, and encourage them in their patriotic work.
This he uttered with so much spirit and boldness that he filled his assailants with a terrible fear, and as much for this reason as at the persuasion of the landlord they left off stoning him, and he allowed them to carry off the wounded, and with the same calmness and composure as before resumed the watch over his armour.
With calm belief in the Paris of his imagination--where Marcas was a politician, Nucingen a banker, Gobseck a money-lender, and Vautrin a candidate for some such place as this-- Balzac introduces me to a Pole by name Paz, who, loving the wife of his friend, devotes himself to watch over her happiness and her husband's interest.
You and I are supposed to watch over Aeia, protect her, not bully her.
It is needless to say that the police kept a close watch over the departure of the Caucasus, and showed themselves pitiless to those travelers who did not satisfactorily answer their questions.