Wiretap (Verb)
Meaning
Tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information; "The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy"; "Is this hotel room bugged?".
Classification
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling.
Examples
- They discovered that someone had attempted to wiretap the senator's home phone line to gather incriminating evidence against him.
- The detectives began to wiretap the suspect's phone, secretly recording all his conversations with known accomplices.
- Experts suspected the possibility of an insider after discovering a device used to wiretap phones within the office building.
- The government has been accused of violating the constitutional rights of its citizens by wiretapping their phones and monitoring their internet activities.
- Journalists claimed they had evidence that the crime lord's phone had been wiretapped by the police long before he was arrested and brought to trial.