What does watched mean?
Watched means simple past and past participle of watch.
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/wɑt͡ʃt/ · verb
simple past and past participle of watch.
Passing the third checkpoint, the third smiling [sic] state policeman, a fellow by the name of R. C. Anderson, raises his big silver-watched wrist and touches the brim of his gray felt Stetson (yes, he does) as one faintly remembers Wendell Corey once doing from high on a Canadian Mountie snow peak overlooking something like a distressed Linda Darnell.
Conrad Scott then grabbed Senator Moss’s watched wrist and thrust it into the air, allowing the crowd to exercise their delirium one last time.
Kara grimaced at the last but waved it away with flick of her Swatch watched wrist saying, “Angie you’re exaggerating. It can’t have been that bad. You seemed happy. You had your share.”
Edward surfaced from his performance to see a man who appeared composed of only sharp angles standing in the foyer, where the light caught his gold-watched wrist.
So too the human shield protecting the pathway beyond the gates, a young man in a security uniform who cheerfully declared upon espying me, ‘Only nine seconds exactly to go until we open!’ while waving his watched wrist in the air.
He wasn’t looking up but was instead staring straight ahead at the school principal, his legs crossed, a Rolex-watched wrist draped languidly over one knee in an almost feminine pose.
The hairy, gold-watched wrist of an airline captain changing gear in a sports car while enjoying a Rothmans cigarette stood for all he could never be, even as it opened out a little hollow of confused desire within him.
You would certainly think the watched quantum pot would also boil. It turns out, because of the vigilant observations, the transition never occurs; the watched quantum pot never boils.
Use watched when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Watched means simple past and past participle of watch.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Passing the third checkpoint, the third smiling [sic] state policeman, a fellow by the name of R. C. Anderson, raises his big silver-watched wrist and touches the brim of his gray felt Stetson (yes, he does) as one faintly remembers Wendell Corey once doing from high on a Canadian Mountie snow peak overlooking something like a distressed Linda Darnell.
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