Past tense of surveil
regular verb
The past tense of surveil is surveilled. The past participle is also surveilled.
Forms of surveil
| Base form (V1) | surveil /sɚˈveɪl/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | surveilled |
| Past participle (V3) | surveilled |
| Present participle | surveilling |
| Third person singular | surveils |
Surveilled in a sentence
- The plaintiff also stresses that the store as a whole, and the customer exits especially, were closely surveilled.
- A surveilled target using properly encrypted VOIP can greatly complexify the task of wire-tapping.From the entry complexify
Meaning of surveil
- verb To keep someone or something under surveillance.
Questions about the past tense of surveil
- What is the past tense of surveil?
- The past tense of surveil is surveilled.
- What is the past participle of surveil?
- The past participle of surveil is surveilled.
- Is surveil a regular or irregular verb?
- Surveil is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: surveil (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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