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Look after

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Verb
  1. 1
    To follow with the eyes; to look in the direction of (someone or something departing). transitive

    "The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed."

  2. 2
    keep under careful scrutiny wordnet
  3. 3
    To seek out, to look for. regional, transitive

    "My subject does not necessarily oblige me to look after this water, or point forth the place whereunto 'tis now retreated."

  4. 4
    To care for; to keep safe. also, reflexive, transitive

    "He asked me to look after his daughter while he was away."

  5. 5
    To have as one's business; to manage, be responsible for. transitive
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  1. 6
    To expect, look forward to. obsolete, transitive

    "Mens hearts failing them for feare, and for looking after those things which are comming on the earth; For the powers of heauen shall be shaken."

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