keep watch
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keep watch
verb keeps watch · keeping watch · kept watch
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To guard; to watch over someone or something.
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.
Similar: stand guard
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