Synonyms of babysit

babysit

verb

as in to watch

to take care of a child while the child's parents are away

She babysits their kids on Saturday nights.

Related Words

• watch
• mother
• baby
• supervise
• attend
• chaperone
• tend
• oversee
• shepherd
• care (for)
• manage
• operate
• regulate
• protect
• control
• run
• conduct
• superintend
• guide
• govern
• mind
• direct
• guard
• administrate
• safeguard
• preside (over)
• steward
• patrol
• shield

Dissimilar Words

• forget
• ignore
• abandon
• disregard
• pass over
• neglect

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of babysit

Except on Mondays, when the church’s youth fellowship met, Adele was expected to come straight home from school and babysit her brothers. — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

Becerra may have been an innocent victim, but $120,000 a year is a lot of money to pay someone to babysit a largely unused stack of cash. — Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026

They can be hired to babysit other kids, do household tasks or deliver newspapers. — Sacbee.com, 29 Apr. 2026

One scene in particular where the dynamic shifts can be seen in the second episode when Shyanne brings baby Bodhi (Graham Hendrix) to Margo’s work, a restaurant that resembles Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour, when she was supposed to babysit him for Margo. — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2026