Definition of "look after" []

• To watch or protect; to keep safe. (verb)

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• "“Who was going to look after them when I go away to college?” he asked Dr. Horsehead."
• "Katie Conroy was to have full charge of the housekeeping, and Robert Ireton to have charge of the outdoor work, so that Cousin Lucy would have nothing to do but look after the children."
• "The clergyman deputed by the bishop to look after the prisoners had to inquire constantly "quae illorum cura adhibeatur, cum in primis ad animae salutem, tum etiam ad corporis sustentationem", i.e. what care was taken of them, first in regard to their spiritual needs and then as to their physical welfare."