spied
spied is the simple past and past participle of spy.
Meaning of spy
Verb
spy (third-person singular simple present spies, present participle spying, simple past and past participle spied)
- To act as a spy.
- During the Cold War, Russia and America would each spy on each other for recon.
- To spot; to catch sight of; to espy.
- I think I can spy that hot guy coming over here.
- To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
- (As I confeſſe it is my Natures plague / To ſpy into Abuſes, and of my iealouſie / Shapes faults that are not)c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
- To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
Forms of spied
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Phrases with spied
Words that rhyme with spied
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- provide
- tied
- fried
- glide
- hide
- inside
- bide
- decide
- offside
- -side
- collide
- confide
- flipside
- set aside
- stride
- subside
- aside
- beride
- beside
- bestride
- chide
- coincide
- cyanide
- dried
- elide
- eyed
- gride
- preside
- reside
- Ryde
- allied
- applied
- astride
- betide
- bride
- deride
- dyed
- guyed
- I'd
- imide
- incide
- pied
- right side
- said
- snide
- statewide
- tried
- vide
Questions about spied
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Adapted from Wiktionary: spied (page history and authors); spy (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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