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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

surveil en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /səˈveɪl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /sɚˈveɪl/ (General-American)

Etymology

Back-formation from surveillance (but cf. French surveiller and its variant surveille). First attested in 1903.

Meanings

  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

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
surveilled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
surveilled Tense=Past lexicographic
surveilling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
surveils Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

surveilee · surveiler · unsurveilled · resurveil · surveillable

Translations (11)

fr surveiller (To keep someone or something under surveillance) · pt vigiar (To keep someone or something under surveillance) · da overvåge (To keep someone or something under surveillance) · de überwachen (To keep someone or something under surveillance) · pl monitorować (To keep someone or something under surveillance) · pl obserwować (To keep someone or something under surveillance) · sv övervaka (To keep someone or something under surveillance) · hu megfigyel (To keep someone or something under surveillance) · pl inwigilować (To keep someone or something under surveillance) · fi valvoa (To keep someone or something under surveillance) · pl nadzorować (To keep someone or something under surveillance)