Definition of Look after

1. Verb. Keep under careful scrutiny. "Keep an eye on this prisoner!"

Generic synonyms: Look Out, Watch, Watch Out

Definition of Look after

1. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To watch or protect; to keep safe. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Look After

loogie
loogies
looie
looies
looing
look
look'd
look-alike
look-alikes
look-down, shoot-down
look-in
look-out
look-over
look-see
look across
look after
look ahead
look alike
look and feel
look around
look at
look away
look back
look backward
look before you leap
look book
look daggers
look down on
look down one's nose
look down upon

Literary usage of Look after

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... to look after the matter, and whilst there the conveyances in controversy were m;ule. 4. It only remains to add that the creditors. ..."

2. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1910)
"Then he addressed himself to Cardinal de' Medici, and commissioned him to look after me, adding that he should be very sorry to let me slip through his ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The clergyman deputed by the bishop to look after the prisoners had to inquire constantly "quse illorum ..."

4. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"Amongst the labouring people, the first thing you have to look after is, common honesty, speaking t/te truth, and refraining from t/iiiv- ing ; and to ..."

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