snooped
past simple and past participle ofsnoop
snoop
verb[Iusually+ adv/prep]
informaldisapprovinguk/snuːp/us/snuːp/tolookaround aplacesecretly, inordertodiscoverthings orfindoutinformationabout someone or something:
People weresentout to snooponrivalbusinesses.
She's thesortofpersonyou canimaginesnoopingaboutyourroomwhen you're not there.
totrytofindout about other people'sprivatelives:
I don'tmeanto snoop, but is there somethingwrong?
Clara'shusbandis snoopingonher because hethinksshe isseeinganother man.
International relations: spying and espionage
- agent
- agent provocateur
- anti-bug
- counter-espionage
- insider
- intel
- intelligence
- MI5
- MI6
- operative
- scout
- sleuthing
- snoop
- spook
- spy
- spy onsomeone/something
- superspy
- tail
- tap
- the CIA
Examplesofsnooped
snooped
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Living in close proximity to each other, neighbours or residents will besnoopedupon, discussed in great detail, and perhaps even ridiculed.
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Despite the use of passwords, confidentiality might be breached on the internet and mobile phone conversations have beensnoopedon.
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Why do they have to besnoopedon if they are doing a legal act?
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The cost therefore worked out at over £1 per personsnooped.
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These devices are such that those people who are beingsnoopedupon—for that is exactly what it is—may not know what is happening.
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Since then the expenditure has gone up to £100,000, but we are not told whether the cost per personsnoopedis the same or not.
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Not only is he to be treated in this clandestine way, but apparently he is to besnoopedon.
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On the second day out, an enemy twin-engine bombersnoopedthe task force and received a hail of fire from some of the screening destroyers.
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