Meaning

1 senses

  1. (US)To keep someone or something under surveillance.

    The plaintiff also stresses that the store as a whole, and the customer exits especially, were closely surveilled.

    überwachen

    keep under surveillance

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Police surveilled the scene.

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  2. Algiers is undoubtedly the most surveilled city in Algeria.

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Translations

4 languages
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By meaning 1
To keep someone or something under surveillance:

Origin

Back-formation from surveillance (but cf. French surveiller and its variant surveille). Fi

Back-formation from surveillance (but cf. French surveiller and its variant surveille). First attested in 1903.

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Forms

surveils, surveilling, surveilled, surveilled
Base formsurveil · to surveil
3rd person singularsurveils
Present participlesurveilling
Past simplesurveilled
Past participlesurveilled

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysurveil
he, she, itsurveils

Past simpleLesson

all personssurveilled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave surveilled
he, she, ithas surveilled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill surveil

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words
Derivedresurveilsurveileesurveilersurveillableunsurveilled

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
surrogatesurroundB1surroundingB1surveillanceB2surveyA1surveyor
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