espying
Meaning of espying
verb, gerund or present participle
- catch sight of.
she espied her daughter rounding the corner
Middle English: from Old French espier, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to Dutch spieden and German spähan . Compare with spy.
Information about espying
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Hyphenation of espying
es-py-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 7 chars.
- espying is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
espying synonyms
Meaning see or perceive briefly or partially:
Meaning perceive with the eyes; discern visually:
Meaning see, notice, or recognize (someone or something) that is difficult to detect or that one is searching for:
Meaning discern or make out, especially by careful observation:
Meaning become aware of:
Meaning notice or perceive (something) and register it as being significant:
Meaning distinguish (someone or something) with difficulty by sight or with the other senses:
Meaning become aware or conscious of (something); come to realize or understand:
Meaning manage to see or observe (someone or something); catch an initial glimpse of:
Meaning discern (something intangible or barely perceptible):
Meaning see or observe (someone or something, especially of remarkable or impressive nature):
Meaning catch sight of:
Anagrams of espying
Words that rhyme with espying
betra'ying, Maying, abraying, affraying, alaying, allaying, apaying, appaying, arraying, assaying, baying, belaying, bendaying, beraying, betraying, bewraying, bioassaying, braying, bricklaying, cardplaying, causewaying, claying, daying, decaying, deejaying, defraying, delaying, denaying, deraying, disarraying, dismaying, displaying, doomsaying, downplaying, draying, effraying, embaying, endplaying, essaying, estraying, faying, flaying, foraying, forelaying, foresaying, forraying, forsaying, fraying, gainsaying, gatewaying
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