watched
SayWOCHT/wɑt͡ʃt/UK/wɒtʃt/
- 1Simple 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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- 2Looked 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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- 3Wearing 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
- Spelling
- watch → watched: add -ed
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