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What (who) is overhear - definition
Overhear
·vt To hear again.
II. Overhear ·vt To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.
overhear
(overhears, overhearing, overheard)
If you overhear someone, you hear what they are saying when they are not talking to you and they do not know that you are listening.
I overheard two doctors discussing my case.
VERB: V n
overhear
¦ verb (past and past participle overheard) hear accidentally or secretly.
Examples of use of overhear
1. The conversations you overhear, the cafes and courtyards you discover, become a proper collaboration with place.
2. I overhear snatches of his conversation with the State Department.
3. Don‘t leave answerphone messages that the children are likely to overhear.
4. When they overhear Darryl and Vanessa, Percy and Calvin devise a plan to recover the stolen gem.
5. I overhear a twentysomething young man boasting about how he‘s recently bought a 200,000 Lamborghini (or "Lambo" as he so irritatingly described it) on his father‘s credit card.