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watched

SayWOCHT/wɑt͡ʃt/UK/wɒtʃt/

3 meanings of watched

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  1. 1
    verb
    Simple past and past participle of watch. Use this form for watching that already happened.

    We watched a movie together last night.

    The children watched the birds in the garden for an hour.

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  2. 2
    adjective
    Looked at or kept track of closely by someone.

    A watched pot never seems to boil.

    The watched accounts showed no unusual activity that week.

    Similarobserved, guarded, patrolled, supervised

    Oppositeunmonitored, unguarded, unsupervised, unattended

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  3. 3
    adjective
    Wearing a watch, most often said of a person's wrist.

    He looked down at his watched wrist and saw that he was already late for class.

    She raised a gold-watched wrist to wave down the taxi.

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watched is a form of watch

watch, verb: To look at someone or something for a while. Full entry

Forms
watchwatches he/she/itwatching -ing formwatched past tense, past participle
Spelling
watch → watched: add -ed

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