SPIED

Definition: SPIED

SPIED

1. Imp. & p. p. of Spy.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Spy

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SPIED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Crosswords: SPIED

I spied a highwayman (On the Road to Fairfax County; performing artist: The Roches)

I Spied for You (1943)

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Books

• And I spied (reference)

• I Spied a Pale Horse (reference)

• I spied for Stalin (reference)

• The climate of treason : five who spied for Russia (reference)

• Women who spied for the Blue and the Gray (reference)

  (more book examples)

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The Hubble telescope has spied a giant celestial "eye," known as planetary nebula NGC 6751. ... Credit: NASA.

Astronomers analyzing debris from a comet that broke apart last summer spied pieces as small ... Credit: NASA.

When 19th century astronomer Sir John Herschel spied a swirling cloud of gas with a hole ... Credit: NASA.

Surf boiling on the reef on the north side of San Salvador Island Note white cliffs showing above surf line Are these what Columbus's lookout spied on the morning of October 12, 1492?. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Courting couple spied on by father. Credit: Library of Congress.

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At last, after a bend of the road, I spied a little cottage with a light in the window.

I made all the sail I could, and in half an hour she spied me, then hung out her ancient, and discharged a gun.

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Economic History

Vanuatu

The first island in the Vanuatu group discovered by Europeans was Espiritu Santo, when in 1606 the Portuguese explorer, Pedro Fernandez De Quiros, spied what he thought was a southern continent. (references)

Human Rights

Paraguay

There were allegations that the Government occasionally spied on individuals and monitored communications for political and security reasons. (references)

Russia

Subsequently FSB representatives publicized allegations that Tobin had spied against Russia, although no formal espionage charges were ever filed against him. (references)

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Expression using "SPIED": be spied. Additional references.

Albanian

gjurmohem (be chased, be spied). (various references)

Chinese 

侦察 (reconnaissance, Reconnoissance, reconnoiter, reconnoitering, reconnoitre, reconnoitring, Scouted, scouting, spying). (various references)

French

épiées, épiée, épié, épiâmes, épièrent, épia. (various references)

German

spionierten, spionierte. (various references)

Greek 

αόρ. του spy. (various references)

Korean 

감시하�" (guarded). (various references)

Pig Latin

iedspay

Russian 

шпионить (spy, tout). (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "SPIED": espied. (additional references)

Misspellings

"SPIED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apied, aspide, opied, psued, sapide, sephied, sepiad, sepid, Sied, sipd, speeed, spei, spia, spid, spide, spie, spier, spiled, spind, spired, spleed, spoedd, spoid, spoud, spred, spriled, spude, spued, spyed, suppied. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: siped.

-1 letter: dies, dips, ides, peds, pied, pies, side, sipe, sped.

-2 letters: die, dip, dis, eds, ids, ped, pes, pie, pis, psi, sei, sip.

-3 letters: de, ed, es, id, is, pe, pi, si.

+1 letter: bipeds, dispel, espied, lisped, peised, pished, pissed, poised, prides, prised, redips, sipped, sliped, sniped, spiced, spider, spiked, spiled, spined, spired, spited, stiped, swiped, upside, vespid, wisped.

+2 letters: adipose, alipeds, aphides, apsides, aspired, crisped, depicts, deposit, depside, despair, despise, despite, despoil, diapers, dimples, diphase, diploes, dipnets, dipoles, dippers, discept, dispels, dispend, dispose, dispute, dopiest, elapids, episode, gipsied, gypsied, impedes, impends, imposed, lapides, lipides, mispled, paddies, palsied, pandies, peptids, periods, piddles, pinders, pleiads, podites, posited, praised, preside, prissed, pyxides, shipped, skimped, skipped, slipped, snipped, sopited, speiled, speired, spiders, spidery, spieled, spiered, spiffed, spilled, spindle, spirted, spitted, spliced, splined, spoiled, stipend, striped, topside, updives, updries, upsides, vespids.