watched
/wɑt͡ʃt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.72 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of watch
adj
Example Sentences
- "Terror reigns and the negroes are more watched than ever; free negroes ordered off by vigilance committees, and in the country men sleep with loaded firearms ‘handy!’ Little of all this appears on the surface, but men’s minds and faces are anxious."
- "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."
- "The upper bound only needs to be updated when one of the watched M variables is assigned to false."
- "To mimic the effect, students are asked to undertake an activity, with you, the instructor, monitoring ony half the class. Afterwards, you compare the work produced by the "watched" students with the work produced by the "unwatched.""
- "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."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /wɑt͡ʃt/
- British English: /wɒtʃt/
Inflected Forms
more watched (comparative)
most watched (superlative)