Spying synonyms

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watching
The act of one who watches.
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prying
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following
A group or gathering of admirers, adherents, or disciples:
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wiretapping
The installation or monitoring of wiretaps.
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voyeurism
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overflight
The flight of an aircraft over a particular place; used especially to refer to a flight over foreign or enemy territory
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espionage
The act of spying
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snooping
To secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others.
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interference (related)
An act or instance of interfering
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intrusion (related)
The act of intruding
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espial
(Obs.) A spy
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surveillance
Surveillance is the close observation of someone, often in order to catch them in wrongdoing.
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detection
A finding out or being found out
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catching
The action of the verb catch.
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undercover work
the act of keeping a secret watch for intelligence purposes
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espying
To catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; to discover, as a distant object partly concealed, or not obvious to notice; to see at a glance; to discern unexpectedly; to spy; as, to espy land; to espy a man in a crowd.
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descrying
Descry is defined as to discover or detect something.
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viewing
To think of (something) in a particular way; regard:
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sneaking
(Dated) To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
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seeing
To ascertain; find out:
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searching
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:
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scrutinizing
To scrutinize is to look at something very closely or very carefully.
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scouting
To search as a scout:
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peeping
To come into view; show or appear gradually or partially, as though from hiding
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noticing
To notice is to learn about or see something for the first time, or giving someone or something attention.
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meddling
Meddle is defined as intrude in someone else's life or business.
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inspecting
To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
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examining
Examine is defined as to analyze, inspect or carefully study.
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discovering
To be the first to find out, see, or know about
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casing
To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
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beholding
To hold in view; look at; see; regard
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heeling
To follow at one's heels:
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trailing
To follow behind, esp. in a lagging manner
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hounding
To hunt or chase with or as with hounds; chase or follow continually; nag
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peering
(Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
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hunting
To search; seek
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glimpsing
To see or view briefly or incompletely.
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discerning
Discern is defined as to recognize someone or something as different from someone or something else.
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investigating (related)
The definition of investigate is to look into something or someone in order to try to discover the truth or to piece together a sequence of events.
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