eavesdrop
verb (used without object), eaves·dropped, eaves·drop·ping.
verb (used with object), eaves·dropped, eaves·drop·ping.
noun Also eaves·drip [eevz-drip] /ˈivzˌdrɪp/.
Origin of eavesdrop
Examples from the Web for eavesdropping
Contemporary Examples of eavesdropping
A few years ago, I was standing in a queue behind two men and eavesdropping on their conversation.
The intelligence community knows this, he said, from insights gleaned from eavesdropping on the night of the attack.
From eavesdropping to exceptionalism, the filmmaker explains why America is a sick country.
Eavesdropping from afar on the debate about how American Jews will vote this year is a slightly surrealistic business.
When Cal overhears his father plotting, he feels like Jim Hawkins eavesdropping on John Silver and the pirates planning mutiny.
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Historical Examples of eavesdropping
Was it right for her to be eavesdropping when older people were talking, the little goose?
L'AssommoirEmile Zola
Besides, she did not wish her father and mother to know she had been eavesdropping.
Polly of Lady Gay CottageEmma C. Dowd
In it, his words were not vulnerable to the sono-beam's eavesdropping.
Zero DataCharles Saphro
Their eavesdropping vibrations, with audible projection, were upon me.
He did not mean the blinking, eavesdropping humbug to force his action.
End of the TetherJoseph Conrad