to surveil
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8.4
- verb
- /sɜrˈveɪl/
:
vigilar
- The committee voted to surveil the area closely in anticipation of any criminal activity.
- warrant to surveil
- surveil targets
- surveil mosques
They want to adopt the blockchain and they want to pervert it to surveil everything that you do.
- They want to adopt the blockchain and they want to pervert it to surveil everything that you do.
- And so Sacramento homicide and FBI start surveilling him.
- So they're likely heavily surveilled regions.
- What would you say to people who feel socially anxious or awkward or like they are being surveilled by everyone else?
- And so the only alternative people have to be to be off the grid, not to be tracked, not to be surveilled.
- Officials said so Russian communications were intercepted, but we were not surveilling the meeting nor the Americans that were in that meeting.
- It's about being in the, in the grocery store or in a store and being surveilled, having the surveillance, we call it called the white gaze.
- ATL is also has been named the most surveilled city in America.
- Because they may stalk you docks, you surveil you.
Examples
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The police decided to surveil the suspect after receiving several tips about his activities.
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What would you say to people who feel socially anxious or awkward or like they are being surveilled by everyone else?
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The ability to surveil is very concerning, but as this case grows, we can see the problems it has revealed.
Blog text (19) -
We were being surveilled by our own military.
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And that became the most surveilled place in the world, according to some reports.
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Your company has been surveilling Americans for years.
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Today, local governments are considering the use of drone technology to police and surveil from the skies.
Academic text (2016) -
The city of Baltimore uses aerial photography to surveil every house, looking for building permit violations.
Blog text (32) -
Major American cities are experimenting with unmanned drone technology to surveil Americans from the skies, a development that recently drew a note of concern about privacy from a sitting United States Supreme Court Justice.
Academic text (2016) -
To gather more information, the agents were instructed to surveil the meeting discreetly.
Synonyms
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2.4
To watch someone or something carefully to make sure nothing bad happens
352
4.2
To secretly watch someone to see what they do
132
4.4
To secretly watch someone to get information for a government or company
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5.7
To secretly look for someone's private information or watch them
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3.3
To look at something carefully to see what it is like
30
3.1
To stay alert and watch for danger or trouble
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6.0
To follow someone closely and secretly to watch what they do
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3.0
Look at a person or thing very carefully for a while to notice problems
1
4.8
To place people to look for danger and protect others
Antonyms
How Closely
- Offensive
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7.4
52
5.9
9
8.4
627
3.5
619
2.4
∞
1.0
299
1.5
Surface Forms
Etymology
Surveil comes from the French parts sur- ('over') and veiller ('to watch'), so it literally means 'to watch over'. That's why to surveil someone is to watch them closely.