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Meaning of "spy out" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SPY OUT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPY OUT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spy out is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES SPY OUT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of spy out in the English dictionary

The definition of spy out in the dictionary is to discover by careful observation. Other definition of spy out is to make a close scrutiny of.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPY OUT

sputter
sputterer
sputteringly
sputtery
sputum
spy
spy camera
spy plane
spy ring
spy satellite
spy ship
Spy Wednesday
spy-in-the-sky
spycatcher
spyglass
spyhole
spying
spying charge
spymaster
spyware

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPY OUT

buy out
carry out
check out
cry out
day in, day out
dry out
eat out
figure out
fill out
find out
get out
lay out
log out
long drawn out
on the way out
pay out
play out
sign out
stay out
try out

Synonyms and antonyms of spy out in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «spy out» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPY OUT

Find out the translation of spy out to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spy out from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spy out» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

窥探
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

espiar
570 millions of speakers

English

spy out
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बाहर जासूसी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يتجسسوا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

высмотреть
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

espiar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গুপ্তচর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

explorer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mengintip
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

auskundschaften
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

探り出す
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

정탐
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Spy metu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thám
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உளவு வெளியே
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बाहेर जाणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Casusluk yapmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tastare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wyszpiegować
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вивідати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

iscodească
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατασκοπεύσουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verken
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bespeja
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

utspeide
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spy out

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPY OUT»

The term «spy out» is regularly used and occupies the 108.120 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPY OUT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spy out

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPY OUT»

Discover the use of spy out in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spy out and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
I Spy: An Alphabet in Art
"I spy with my little eye something beginning with A..." Even the very youngest art lovers can spy out the apple in Magritte's Son of Man through the zigzags in de Geest's Portrait of a Child.
Lucy Micklethwait, 1996
2
The Spy Story
The situation of the spy "out in the cold" seems to exptess the way many people feel about the basic pattetns of theit lives. We fitst became awate of this phenomenon when we wete ptesenting eatliet vetsions of out consttuct of the cycle of ...
John G. Cawelti, 1987
3
Life of Pauline Cushman, the celebrated union spy and scout
"They ought to hang her!" one would exclaim. "If they don't," another virago would chime in, "I know who will, and that's meself. I'll see if the confounded Yankee dogs will dare to send their spies down here to spy out all our actions." " Spy out !
F[erdinand] L Sarmiento
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The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old ...
Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, Jos. 6 : 25. Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. 14: 7. sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land ; Jud. 18: 2. from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, 14. the five men that went to spy out 17. the five men that went to  ...
George V. Wigram, 1866
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The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee concordance of the Old ...
Go, search the land: no magistrate in the land, for we have seen the land, lo enter to possess the land. a people secure, and to a large land: any thing that (is) in the earth. men that went to spy out the country men that went to spy out the land ...
George Vicesimus Wigram, 1860
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The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old ...
Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, nt to spy nt me from Kai the land ; Jud. 18: 2. from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, 14. the five men that went to spy out 17. the tive men that went to spy out the land 2Sa. 10: 3. to search the city, and to spy it out, ICh ...
‎1814
7
Untitled
2 spy out informal to get knowledge secretly, especially of a place: I generally like to spy out restaurants before I go to eat in them. seek 3 [T] old-fashioned or humorous to see or notice someone or something usually when it involves looking ...
8
The Essential Evangelical Parallel Bible: New King James ...
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them.” 3So Moses sent them from ...
John R. Kohlenberger, 2004
9
Life-Study of Numbers: Messages 1-28
God Commanding Moses to Send Twelve Men to Spy Out the Land of Canaan God commanded Moses to send twelve men to spy out the land of Canaan (13:1- 20). At that time the atmosphere and morale among the children of Israel had ...
Witness Lee, 1990
10
The Catholic Bible Concordance: Revised Standard Version, ...
33:40 11:12 sucking child, to the L which thou didst swear 33:51 13:2 to spy out the L of Canaan, which I 33:52 13:16 men whom Moses sent to spy out the L 33: 53 13:17 to spy out the L of Canaan, and said 33:53 13:18 and see what the L is,  ...
C. W. Lyons, Thomas Deliduka, 2009

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPY OUT»

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Top CIA spy in Pakistan pulled amid threats after public accusation …
The CIA has pulled its top spy out of Pakistan after terrorists threatened to kill him, current and former U.S. officials said, an unusual move for the U.S. and a ... «Washington Post, Dec 10»
2
Anna Chapman: real Russian spy out before Angelina Jolie 's Salt …
In what must be a wild coincidence, Anna Chapman – who looks a little like Angelina Jolie – is accused of being a real Russian spy just weeks before Angelina ... «SFGate.com, Jun 10»

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