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observe

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Verb

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Plain form
observe

Third-person singular
observes

Past tense
observed

Past participle
observed

Present participle
observing

Observe is on theAcademic Vocabulary List.
  1. (transitive &intransitive) If youobserve something, you see or notice it.
    No problem behavior wasobserved among these students.
    My goal is to record what Iobserve during one session.
    A similar pattern was alsoobserved in the posttest data.
  2. (transitive &intransitive) If youobserve something, you watch it carefully.
    The moon is really too bright toobserve through a telescope.
    He spent hours closelyobserving the weather and making careful notes.
  3. (transitive);(formal) If youobserve something, usually a fact, you say or write it.
    When we were talking, he alsoobserved that some new problems had come up.
  4. (transitive) If youobserve a law or agreement, you follow it.
    Israel agreed to start moving out of West Bank towns if the Palestiniansobserved a cease-fire.
  5. (transitive) If youobserve a special day, you do the traditional things that are done on that day, especially in a religion.
    Some 1 billion people around the world will do something toobserve the anniversary of the first Earth Day in 1970.
    At a tent city on the outskirts of Islamabad in Pakistan, familiesobserved the end of Ramadan by donating gifts to the earthquake survivors.
    The patient may be asked toobserve some taboo, such as not having sex on a particular day.

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