To look after Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions

1. . (a) To attend to; to take care of; as, to look after children . (b) To expect; to be in a state of expectation.

   Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. Luke xxi. 26.

   (c) To seek; to search .

   My subject does not oblige me to look after the water, or point forth the place where to it is now retreated. Woodward.