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watched¹

  • /wɑt͡ʃt/ US
  • /wɒtʃt/ UK

Rhymes with -ɒtʃt

Where it comes from

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of watch

adjective more watched · most watched

  1. Monitored. Terror reigns and the negroes are more watched than ever; free negroes ordered off by vigilance committees, and in the country men sleep with loaded firearms ‘handy!’ Little of all this appears on the surface, but men’s minds and faces are anxious.

watched²

  • /wɑt͡ʃt/ US
  • /wɒtʃt/ UK

Rhymes with -ɒtʃt

Where it comes from

From watch (“a portable or wearable timepiece”) + -ed (“having”).

adjective

  1. not comparable Wearing a watch (a portable or wearable timepiece). Passing the third checkpoint, the third smiling [sic] state policeman, a fellow by the name of R. C. Anderson, raises his big silver-watched wrist and touches the brim of his gray felt Stetson (yes, he does) as one faintly remembers Wendell Corey once doing from high on a Canadian Mountie snow peak

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: picket, ticker, sentry, lookout man, lookout, sentinel, determine, scout, catch, view, take in, follow, learn, vigil, look on, watch over

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MLA

"watched." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/watched. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

watched. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/watched

Chicago

"watched." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/watched.

BibTeX
@misc{watched_2026,
  title = {watched},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/watched},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}