Antonyms for keep watch

Grammar : Verb

Definition of keep watch

As in patrol : verb guard, protect
As in ride herd on : verb keep control over

Example sentences :

We had to keep watch all last night over the horses to keep them from rambling.
Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest

It will afford her some shelter, and we can keep watch outside.
Extract from : « The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 » by Various

They had agreed to keep watch, turn and turn about, two hours at a stretch.
Extract from : « Murder Point » by Coningsby Dawson

He had to keep watch on his eyes, his limbs, on the muscles of his face.
Extract from : « Within the Tides » by Joseph Conrad

They will keep watch of this stranger without arousing his suspicion.
Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee

There didst thou bury them that we might not be able to keep watch over them.
Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston

"Keep watch," was his parting injunction to the four treasure finders.
Extract from : « The Young Treasure Hunter » by Frank V. Webster

And while you sit there, and keep watch, you feel like the last survivor.
Extract from : « The Wrong Woman » by Charles D. Stewart

Three in each party were to keep watch, by turns, while the rest slept.
Extract from : « Under Wellington's Command » by G. A. Henty

We may all venture to go to sleep, I guess, and trust to Guard to keep watch for us.
Extract from : « Left on Labrador » by Charles Asbury Stephens

Synonyms for keep watch

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