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spying out

spying out is the present participle and gerund of spy out.

Meaning of spy out

Verb

spy out (third-person singular simple present spies out, present participle spying out, simple past and past participle spied out)

  1. (transitive) To sight or discover by spying.

Questions about spying out

What is spying out the present participle and gerund of?
Spying out is the present participle and gerund of spy out.

Words near spying out in the dictionary

  1. spyhopping
  2. spyhoppings
  3. spyhops
  4. spying
  5. spying on
  6. spying out
  7. spyings
  8. spyism
  9. spyless
  10. spylike
  11. spymania

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spying out (page history and authors); spy out (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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