guetter
Meanings
Verb
1. to watch (intently), to watch for, to lie in wait (transitive)
2. to await in order to seize (transitive, figurative, figuratively)
3. to menace, to loom (to appear in a threatening form) (transitive, figurative, figuratively)
Examples10
C’est si bon / De guetter dans ses yeux
It's so good / To look into our eyes
guetter une occasion
to wait for an opportunity
La mort le guette.
Death hangs over him.
Le chat guette la souris.
The cat lies in wait for the mouse.
Des gendarmes le guettent.
Gendarmes are lying in wait for him.
Guette cet homme-là.
Watch out for that man.