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surveilling

surveilling is the present participle and gerund of surveil.

surveilling is the present participle and gerund of surveille.

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.

Questions about surveilling

What is surveilling the present participle and gerund of?
Surveilling is the present participle and gerund of surveil.

Words near surveilling in the dictionary

  1. surveillants
  2. surveille
  3. surveilled
  4. surveillence
  5. surveilles
  6. surveilling
  7. surveils
  8. survene
  9. survened
  10. survenes
  11. survening

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surveilling (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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