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Definition of the day : « overhear »

  • As in listen : verb hear and pay attention
  • As in bug : verb listen to without permission
  • As in hearken : verb hear
  • As in eavesdrop : verb listen without permission
  • As in hear : verb detect by perceiving sound
Example sentences :
  • Wishing to know what they were up to, I stole slyly to where I could overhear their proceedings.
  • Extract from : « Southern Lights and Shadows » by Various
  • Not another word of this just now, or they may overhear us.'
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • He was glad to be thus isolated—he could overhear no criticism or comments.
  • Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
  • He tried to overhear their conversation but it was in a language which he did not recognize.
  • Extract from : « Poisoned Air » by Sterner St. Paul Meek
  • Then you must tell him, of course, even if you did overhear.
  • Extract from : « Joy (First Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
  • Yet I do believe that it was His will that I should come to overhear what is being plotted.
  • Extract from : « The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Their tone and manner were what you say,—so much so that I went away, not to overhear them.
  • Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever
  • The deliberation was a long, and, as I could overhear, a strongly disputed one.
  • Extract from : « Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune » by Charles James Lever
  • Owing to the distance from his wife it could not have been possible for her to overhear these words.
  • Extract from : « Telepathy » by W. W. Baggally
  • It would do your master great injury were he to overhear them.
  • Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever