All babysit synonyms

verb babysit

• manage — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
• preserve — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
• patrol — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
• secure — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
• oversee — to direct (work or workers); supervise; manage: He was hired to oversee the construction crews.
• defend — If you defend someone or something, you take action in order to protect them.
• cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• observe — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
• supervise — to oversee (a process, work, workers, etc.) during execution or performance; superintend; have the oversight and direction of.
• safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
• shield — a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
• look after — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
• hear — to perceive by the ear: Didn't you hear the doorbell?
• obey — to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of: to obey one's parents.
• listen — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
• take to heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
• notice — an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day's notice.
• perceive — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
• feed — to give a fee to.
• nourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
• vaccinate — to inoculate with the vaccine of cowpox so as to render the subject immune to smallpox.
• cradle — A cradle is a baby's bed with high sides. Cradles often have curved bases so that they rock from side to side.
• take care of — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
• inspect — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
• command — If someone in authority commands you to do something, they tell you that you must do it.
• do — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
• protect — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
• manage — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
• maintain — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
• guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
• tend — to attend by action, care, etc. (usually followed by to).
• watch — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
• sit — to rest with the body supported by the buttocks or thighs; be seated.
• lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
• shepherd — a male given name.
• mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
• police — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
• fend — to ward off (often followed by off): to fend off blows.
• attend — If you attend a meeting or other event, you are present at it.
• bulwark — A bulwark against something protects you against it. A bulwark of something protects it.
• chaperon — (esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
• screen — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
• chaperone — A chaperone is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm.
• stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
• shelter — something beneath, behind, or within which a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions, etc.; refuge.
• conduct — When you conduct an activity or task, you organize it and carry it out.
• superintend — to oversee and direct (work, processes, etc.).
• convoy — A convoy is a group of vehicles or ships travelling together.
• save — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.