LOOK AFTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does look after mean? 

• LOOK AFTER (verb)
  The verb LOOK AFTER has 1 sense:

1. keep under careful scrutiny

  Familiarity information: LOOK AFTER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOOK AFTER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Keep under careful scrutiny

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

Keep an eye on this prisoner!

Hypernyms (to "look after" is one way to...):

look out; watch; watch out (be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

“I'll go in now, Trot,” said my aunt, “and look after Little Blossom, who will be getting up presently.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"I'll go look after the stock."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Why, they allow me so little that I can’t look after my own people.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh, no; my friend Watson is a medical man, you know, and he’ll look after you.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You want a wife to nurse and look after you a bit; that you do!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I will look after the proofs.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!’ said Vincent Spaulding. ‘I should be able to look after that for you.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Let me go out today, and you look after the house by yourself.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You're big enough to look after yourself.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You're not turning your head to look after more moths, are you?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)