Overhear

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To hear (speech or someone speaking) without the speaker's awareness or intent.
  • verb-intransitive. To hear something without the speaker's awareness or intent.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To hear something that wasn't meant for one's ears.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.
  • v. To hear again.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To hear (one who does not wish to be heard or does not know that he is heard, or what is not addressed to the hearer or is not intended to be heard by him); hear by accident or stratagem.
  • To hear over again; hear from beginning to end.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
    • Verb Form
    overheard    overhearing    overhears   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hear   
    Variant
    overheard   
    Form
    overheard    overhearing    overhearer   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Here    bier    blogosphere    buccaneer    disappear   
     
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