Overhear

/oʊ.vɚˈhɪɚ/

Synonyms for "overhear" (11 found)

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Closest matches (3)

Verb(2 words)
Noun(1 words)

Strong matches (3)

Related words (5)

know well
Verb(4 words)
listenlisten inlistenstake in

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Collocations

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confidential remarkearshotoverhear a confessionoverhear a remarkprivate remarkwithin earshot

Inflections

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Derivations

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similar

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Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I didn't mean to eavesdrop, but I did overhear you.

Source: tatoeba (325437)

How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

Source: tatoeba (552742)

I didn't want Tom to overhear our conversation.

Source: tatoeba (2031938)

I couldn't help but overhear what you said to Tom.

Source: tatoeba (2308245)

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