Antonyms for eavesdropping
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : eevz-drop |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈivzˌdrɒp |
Definition of eavesdropping
Origin :- c.1600, probably a back-formation from eavesdropper. Related: Eavesdropping.
- verb listen without permission
- Was it right for her to be eavesdropping when older people were talking, the little goose?
- Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
- Besides, she did not wish her father and mother to know she had been eavesdropping.
- Extract from : « Polly of Lady Gay Cottage » by Emma C. Dowd
- In it, his words were not vulnerable to the sono-beam's eavesdropping.
- Extract from : « Zero Data » by Charles Saphro
- Their eavesdropping vibrations, with audible projection, were upon me.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 » by Various
- He did not mean the blinking, eavesdropping humbug to force his action.
- Extract from : « End of the Tether » by Joseph Conrad
- Heaven only knows what eavesdropping and relaying he has done.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 » by Various
- The whole country studied Brown's letters with the rapture of eavesdropping.
- Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
- It was as if his hovering soul had been eavesdropping on their thoughts.
- Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
- Relieved, yet ashamed of his eavesdropping, he ran down the road toward his home.
- Extract from : « Patchwork » by Anna Balmer Myers
- What he had learned by this eavesdropping he counted of peculiar value.
- Extract from : « The Yellow Claw » by Sax Rohmer
Synonyms for eavesdropping
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