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Overhear   /ˈoʊvərhˈɪr/   Listen
verb
Overhear  v. t.  (past & past part. overheard; pres. part. overhearing)  
1.
To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.
2.
To hear again.





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"Overhear" Quotes from Famous Books



... sharp, Harrigan. There are some of the lads we can't trust too far, and they mustn't overhear us when ...
— Harrigan • Max Brand
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... Parwick, and follow him when I think he is going to meet Koswell and the others. I may be able to overhear their talk." ...
— The Rover Boys at College • Edward Stratemeyer
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... this with extreme indifference Tom saw that he was more or less startled at seeing them. In fact he immediately slipped outside, and closed the door behind him, as though he did not want his mother or any one else to overhear what might ...
— The Boy Scouts of Lenox - Or The Hike Over Big Bear Mountain • Frank V. Webster
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... he keeps a sharp lookout, and if he sees any fire, he runs towards it in the hope of getting some flesh or broth. He takes great care to keep himself at first concealed behind the tent, in order to overhear what passes there, and to discover if they are at victuals; for they are at great pains, in order to prevent such visits, to take away very speedily the three stones which support the kettle; and in this ...
— Perils and Captivity • Charlotte-Adelaide [nee Picard] Dard
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... the degeneracy of the age. The simple manners of earlier times are forsaken, constant quarrels occur, faith is no longer untarnished nor modesty secure. In the hope of probing to the root of the evil the two determine to hide close at hand and so overhear the conversations of the younger swains and shepherdesses. The fact is that Arcadia has recently been invaded by a gang of rascally adventurers from Corinth and elsewhere: Techne, 'a subtle wench,' who under pretence of introducing the latest ...
— Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama - A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration - Stage in England • Walter W. Greg
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