ESPY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: espied

Present simple: I / you / we / they espy ... he / she / it espies

Past simple: espied

Past participle: espied

-ing form: espying

Meaning:

Catch sight of

Synonyms:

descry; espy; spot; spy

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "espy" is one way to...):

sight; spy (catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

espial (the act of detecting something; catching sight of something)