Overhear Definition

ōvər-hîr
overheard, overhearing, overhears
verb
overheard, overhearing, overhears
To hear (speech or someone speaking) without the speaker's awareness or intent.
American Heritage
To hear (something spoken or a speaker) without the speaker's knowledge or intention.
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Origin of Overhear

  • From Middle English *overheren, from Old English oferhÄ«eran (“to overhear, hear, disobey, disregard, neglect"), equivalent to over- +"Ž hear. Cognate with Dutch overhoren (“to hear, hear about"), German überhören (“to not hear, ignore"), Danish overhøre (“to overhear"), Icelandic yfirheyra (“to hear").

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Overhear Sentence Examples

  • She froze then looked around to ensure no one was there to overhear them.

  • Shinshin, lowering his voice, began to tell the count of some intrigue of Kuragin's in Moscow, and Natasha tried to overhear it just because he had said she was "charmante."

  • Did he overhear her conversation with Connie?

  • And all these groups, while talking among themselves, tried to keep near the commander-in-chief (whose bench formed the center of the gathering) and to speak so that he might overhear them.

  • He waited to speak, not wanting the cousins to overhear.

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