All look after synonyms
look afΒ·ter
L l verb look after
- aid β Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
- assist β If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- steady β firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- support β to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- help out β to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- lend a hand β the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- subsist β to exist; continue in existence.
- survive β to remain alive after the death of someone, the cessation of something, or the occurrence of some event; continue to live: Few survived after the holocaust.
- make do β something that serves as a substitute, especially of an inferior or expedient nature: We had to get along with make-dos during the war.
- cover up β If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- see after β to perceive with the eyes; look at.
- carry on β If you carry on doing something, you continue to do it.
- get together β an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
- put together β assemble
- methodize β to reduce (something) to a method.
- get going β an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
- lick into shape β to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- line up β a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- put in order β arrange correctly
- straighten out β make straighter
- come along β You tell someone to come along to encourage them in a friendly way to do something, especially to attend something.
- string along β a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- go along β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- call the shots β The person who calls the shots is in a position to tell others what to do.
- hang out β to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- run the show β to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- keep company β a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- stick to β to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- tag along β If someone goes somewhere and you tag along, you go with them, especially when they have not asked you to.
- take out β the act of taking.
- go to bat for β Sports. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball. a racket, especially one used in badminton or table tennis. a whip used by a jockey. the act of using a club or racket in a game. the right or turn to use a club or racket.
- sentinel β a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching.
- cover all bases β take full precautions
- stand guard β keep watch
- do for β Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- take care of β a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
- pick up β to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- get a load of β anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- listen up β pay attention, listen
- look on β 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.
- see to β to perceive with the eyes; look at.
- ride herd on β a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock: a herd of cattle; a herd of sheep; a herd of zebras.
- wait on β to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
- keep an eye on β the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- keep tabs on β a small flap, strap, loop, or similar appendage, as on a garment, used for pulling, hanging, or decoration.
- mind the store β to tend to business
- watch over β 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.
- fix up β Informal. a position from which it is difficult to escape; predicament.
- turn out β to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.