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SURVEIL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does surveil mean?
• SURVEIL (verb)
The verb SURVEIL has 1 sense:
1. keep under surveillance
Familiarity information: SURVEIL used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they surveil ... he / she / it surveils
Past simple: surveiled
Past participle: surveiled
-ing form: surveiling
... he / she / it surveils Past simple: surveiled
Past participle: surveiled
-ing form: surveiling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Keep under surveillance
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
Context example:
The police had been following him for weeks but they could not prove his involvement in the bombing
Verb group:
follow; pursue (follow in or as if in pursuit)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
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"He who has nothing will not eat. If you want flour, go gather chestnuts." (Corsican proverb)