When you accidentally hear part of a private conversation, you overhear it. If you overhear your friends discussing the surprise party they're throwing for your birthday, you'll have to pretend to be surprised.
To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.
Verb
hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers; "We overheard the conversation at the next table"
v. t.
To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be
heard; to hear by accident or artifice.
v. t.
To hear again.
Overhear
To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.
Usage Examples
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
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Other Usage ExamplesI usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.
But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.
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