verb
definition
To hear something that was not meant for one's ears.
example
I was hanging clothes in the garden and I overheard the neighbours talking about Sheila's pregnancy.
Examples of overhear in a Sentence
She froze then looked around to ensure no one was there to overhear them.
Shinshin, lowering his voice, began to tell the count of some intrigue of Kuragin's in Moscow, and Natasha tried to overhear it just because he had said she was "charmante."
Did he overhear her conversation with Connie?
He waited to speak, not wanting the cousins to overhear.
And all these groups, while talking among themselves, tried to keep near the commander-in-chief (whose bench formed the center of the gathering) and to speak so that he might overhear them.
In the conversation with Nicodemus we seem to overhear a protest against the growing tendency of the last years of the 1st century to substitute formal sacraments for the free afflatus of the spirit, and to "crib, cabin and confine" the gift of prophecy.
I happened to overhear your little talk with Death in the sacred chamber.
For example, having the teacher walk past the room and overhear the child speaking to the parent, and then having the teacher enter the room, and eventually have the child interacting with the teacher in the classroom.
As a result you run the risk of this woman inappropriately sharing your confidential information where others may overhear.
Quinn added, We didn't want to wake him, or be talking about him while he might overhear.
The family likes the stupid ones; they're too dumb to pull a double cross and if they overhear something, chances are they won't know what's being discussed.
Xander half-listened, distracted by his thoughts and trying to overhear the exchange between Jessi and Brandon.
Sometimes someone can see you spending time with one of your secret friends or overhear a conversation about him/her.