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Overhearing

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something is overheard.

    "Where overhearings were intended, as in conversations that girls wanted boys to overhear, the speaker often directed her gaze at the boy who was supposed to overhear while turning her mouth toward the ear of the listener."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of overhear form-of, gerund, participle, present

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