eavesdrop
verb (used without object)
to listen secretly to a private conversation.
eavesdropper
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a word derived from
eavesdrop.
Example Sentences
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Tøndel empowers the camera to follow characters down hallways and then continue, peeking around corners, finding an eavesdropper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
Unfortunately, the researchers using them are often faced with a similar plight as the unfortunate eavesdropper, leaning against a locked door with an empty glass to their ear.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024
Now social media gives every restaurateur, nanny, production designer and eavesdropper a platform that could reach a global audience.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2022
Communicating with entangled light can also guarantee security, as measurements of quantum systems can reveal the presence of the eavesdropper.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2022
In low tones, she told her husband that there had been “a burglary,” a remark which—repeated by a well-meaning eavesdropper to his neighbor—spread rapidly around the room and generated a flurry of unwanted concern.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
