overhear
verb (used with object)
to hear (speech or a speaker) without the speaker's intention or knowledge.
are overhearing
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present progressiveof overhear.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“There’s obviously a lot of fun to be had with an unreliable narrator who’s not only unreliable to the people that are overhearing the narration but unto himself,” Walker notes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2023
He claims that the militants have worked out an ever changing code so that U.S. eavesdroppers will think they are overhearing ordinary, mundane phone calls.
From Time Magazine Archive
