EAVESDROP


Meaning of EAVESDROP in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

conversation

And it would be yesterday morning again, and she hadn't been up to Hunter Ward and eavesdropped on a conversation .

I began eavesdropping on my parents conversations .

Central News followed their activities over Christmas- our cameras and microphones eavesdropping on a party conversation .

Most shocking was the charge that Morris had allowed her to eavesdrop on conversations with the White House.

I got to eavesdrop on their informal conversations and often attend their presentations or meetings or whatever.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

How did you know I was going? You've been eavesdropping, haven't you!

I caught him eavesdropping on our conversation.

Sue was able to eavesdrop on them through the open window.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Can he eavesdrop through a card, Jaq?

Caroline felt riveted to the floor, motionless, unwilling to consciously eavesdrop but tense with curiosity.

Hackers can eavesdrop using software that monitors packets sent over the network.

He and his assistants hung around shopping malls and city streets, eavesdropping on whoops and hoots.

In most cases, it is difficult to detect that some one is eavesdropping.

Most shocking was the charge that Morris had allowed her to eavesdrop on conversations with the White House.

She wanted to ask what the Leighs were talking about, but did not want him to think she had eavesdropped.

Then the baboon came home and I eavesdropped anxiously and she told him.

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