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outspying

outspying is the present participle and gerund of outspy.

Meaning of outspy

Verb

outspy (third-person singular simple present outspies, present participle outspying, simple past and past participle outspied)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in spying.
    • Comrade Zelenko, as a spy, you are worthless! That girl could outspy you any day.1939, Anna M. Kluchansky, Commissar Krilenko, page 178

Questions about outspying

What is outspying the present participle and gerund of?
Outspying is the present participle and gerund of outspy.

Words near outspying in the dictionary

  1. outspurt
  2. outspurted
  3. outspurting
  4. outspurts
  5. outspy
  6. outspying
  7. outsquat
  8. outsquats
  9. outsquatted
  10. outsquatting
  11. outsquawk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outspying (page history and authors); outspy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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