📚 Overhear, verb. 🔉 /əʊvəˈhɪə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Hear (someone or something) without meaning to or without the knowledge of the speaker. ❗️ Examples: 1. I couldn't help overhearing your conversation. 2. Children will hear conversations and overhear information on radio, TV and from the playground network. 3. The researchers will also note every time they hear or overhear the words being used in conversation. 4. We ended our snack (better described as lunch) with a large pot of Chinese tea, overhearing snatches of conversation from a neighbouring table. 5. Do you really want to overhear his cooing conversations with another girl? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic