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/ˈoʊvərhˈɪr/ Listen

verb

Overhear v. t. (past & past part. overheard; pres. part. overhearing)

To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.

To hear again.

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Etymology of 'Overhear'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Overhear" Quotes from Famous Books

... another as a girl from one of the villages with eggs or fowls. You understand that you will have to follow him, to mark where he goes in, and especially, should he be joined by anybody when out, to endeavour to overhear something of what they say to each other. Even a few words might suffice to show me whether my suspicions are true or not. Do you think you can do that? Osgod tells me that you are ...

— Wulf the Saxon - A Story of the Norman Conquest • G. A. Henty

... up, Barbara slowly leading the way. Miriam remained downstairs to make sure that the blind man did not come in unexpectedly and overhear things which he would be ...

— Flower of the Dusk • Myrtle Reed

... How dare you overhear our domestic dissentions. What business have you to know we ...

— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 • Samuel James Arnold

... might overhear just as you did. Wait a bit until I have a better opportunity, and I'll tell you all there is to know. In the meantime think over who'd be the best men to let into this with us—we'll need three or four more besides ...

— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... to feel that I was neglecting my business; that since I had been so foolhardy as to come ashore with these desperadoes, the least I could do was to overhear them at their councils; and that my plain and obvious duty was to draw as close as I could manage, under the favourable ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

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