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Spying   /spˈaɪɪŋ/   Listen
Spying

noun
1.
Keeping a secret or furtive watch.
2.
The act of keeping a secret watch for intelligence purposes.  Synonym: undercover work.
3.
The act of detecting something; catching sight of something.  Synonyms: catching, detection, espial, spotting.


Spy

verb
(past & past part. spied; pres. part. spying)
1.
Catch sight of.  Synonyms: descry, espy, spot.
2.
Watch, observe, or inquire secretly.  Synonyms: sleuth, snoop, stag.
3.
Catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes.  Synonym: sight.
4.
Secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage.



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"Spying" Quotes from Famous Books



... go to sleep. And no spying, as you're a gentleman. I'll talk reason to the poor fellow. I reckon it's going to be all right. We know that he's had shell shock and all the rest of it, so I dare say the law won't be ...
— The Red Redmaynes • Eden Phillpotts
... spying and prying after me," she cried passionately. "Why can I never have a moment to myself? Other people can, and ...
— Kitty Trenire • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... sir, to make sail and haul off from the shore by morning," observed his first mate. "It is well not to get nearer the Cuba coast than we can help. There are not a few low keys and sandbanks to bring us up; or one of the enemy's cruisers may be spying us, and it would give us a job to get ...
— The Missing Ship - The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley • W. H. G. Kingston
... chance, there comes besmeared with blood About the chaps, a lioness all foaming from the wood, From slaughter lately made of kine to staunch her bloody thirst With water of the foresaid spring. Whom Thisbe, spying first Afar by moonlight, thereupon with fearful steps gan fly And in a dark and irksome cave did hide herself thereby. And as she fled away for haste she let her mantle fall, The which for fear ...
— The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' • Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
... Morin found him in waiting just outside the threshold. With his finger on his lips, Pierre walked on tiptoe by his companion's side till they would have been long past sight or hearing of the conciergerie, even had the inhabitants devoted themselves to the purposes of spying ...
— My Lady Ludlow • Elizabeth Gaskell


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