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overhear


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Overhear  \O`ver*hear"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Overheard};  p.  pr 
  &  vb  n.  {Overhearing}.]  [AS.  oferhi['e]ran.] 
  1.  To  hear  more  of  anything  than  was  intended  to  be  heard; 
  to  hear  by  accident  or  artifice.  --Shak. 
 
  2.  To  hear  again  --ShaK. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  overhear 
  v  :  hear,  usually  without  the  knowledge  of  the  speakers;  "We 
  overheard  the  conversation  at  the  next  table"  [syn:  {catch}, 
  {take  in}] 




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