Synonyms:
catch, take_in, overhear
Meaning: hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers; "We overheard the conversation at the next table"
Usage examples
For such reason, Mr. Denzil, I wish to overhear what he says to Mrs. Clear.
"I wish," he said at last, "I wish we could get in there and overhear what's going on.
"Don't ask her that, please don't!" said Shaggy, who was not too far away to overhear them.
A group of idle laborers stopped talking to watch me; and when I was a few yards past them they laughed at a remark by one of the number which I could not overhear.
Sometimes she would be seen late of an evening sitting in the porch of the village church, and the milk-maids, returning from the fields, would now and then overhear her singing some plaintive ditty in the hawthorn walk.
And now I began to feel that I was neglecting my business, that since I had been so foolhardy as to come ashore with these desperadoes, the least I could do was to overhear them at their councils, and that my plain and obvious duty was to draw as close as I could manage, under the favourable ambush of the crouching trees.