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surveille

surveille is the alternative form of surveil.

Meaning of surveil

Verb

surveil (third-person singular simple present surveils, present participle surveilling, simple past and past participle surveilled)

  1. (US, transitive) To keep someone or something under surveillance.
    • The plaintiff also stresses that the store as a whole, and the customer exits especially, were closely surveilled.

Forms of surveille

third-person singular presentsurveilles
present participlesurveilling
past participlesurveilled
pastsurveilled

Questions about surveille

What is surveille the alternative form of?
Surveille is the alternative form of surveil.

Words near surveille in the dictionary

  1. surveillance capitalism
  2. surveillance pricing
  3. surveillances
  4. surveillant
  5. surveillants
  6. surveille
  7. surveilled
  8. surveillence
  9. surveilles
  10. surveilling
  11. surveils

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surveille (page history and authors); surveil (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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