Like
Like verb - To wish to have.
Watching over and like are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Watching over" instead a verb "Like".
Watching over
Like and watching over are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Like" instead a verb "Watching over".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Just like honest citizens don't need the police constantly watching over their shoulder to abide by the law, atheists don't need to have a God watching over them to do good.
Source: Useful Notes / Atheism - It's hard not to cringe at lines like "Joanna, I felt you watching over me / As I fought the perils of the sea / And almost drowned in my own misery".
Source: Painful Rhyme - And don't forget: there was a familiar 'shadowed' figure watching over when Terra and Geo-Force were undergoing the experiments that granted them their powers that looked suspiciously like General Immortus.
Source: Headscratchers / Teen Titans
Cite this Source
Watching over and Like. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/like/watching_over
Like & Watching over. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/like/watching_over>.
Watching over or Like. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/like/watching_over.
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