snoop

verb/snuːp/

Frequency rank: #8,616 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

to look around secretly in order to find out information about someone.

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Example sentence

She caught her brother trying to snoop through her private diary.

Synonyms & related words

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