Crossword clues for eavesdrop
eavesdrop
- Act like an icicle?
- Listen in (on)
- Rain on the roof?
- Spy aurally
- Hear no good of oneself
- Monitor what happens in autumn after going lead-free?
- Covertly obtain report of First Lady and doctor blocking concession
- Overhear what happens in autumn, but not the start
- What happens in autumn, but not at first, to earwig
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eavesdrop \Eaves"drop`\ ([=e]vz"dr[o^]p`), v. i. [Eaves + drop.] To stand under the eaves, near a window or at the door, of a house, to listen and learn what is said within doors; hence, to listen secretly to what is said in private.
To eavesdrop in disguises.
--Milton.
Eavesdrop \Eaves"drop`\, n. The water which falls in drops from the eaves of a house.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"lurk near a place to hear what is said inside," c.1600, probably a back-formation from eavesdropper. The original notion is listening from under the eaves of a house. Related: Eavesdropping.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The dripping of rain from the eaves of a house 2 The space around a house on which such water drips 3 A concealed aperture through which an occupant of a building can surreptitiously listen to people talking at an entrance to the building 4 The act of intentionally hearing a conversation not intended to be heard vb. (senseid en to hear a conversation one is not intended to hear)To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
WordNet
v. listen without the speaker's knowledge; "the jealous man was eavesdropping on his wife's conversations" [syn: listen in]
[also: eavesdropping, eavesdropped]
Usage examples of "eavesdrop".
Usually, she enjoyed getting lost in a throng of art aficionados, eavesdropping on the various off-the-cuff critiques, but just then, the crowd loomed like a threatening swarm.
Captain Michales had sent All Aga there to spy, to eavesdrop on the servants and find out if Nuri really was seriously wounded.
Wolde, Alec admitted to his eavesdropping and seemed relieved when Nysander merely smiled.
El Arish, eavesdropping on surrounding communications, Israeli soldiers turned the town into a slaughterhouse, systematically butchering their prisoners.
Had they had this whole conversation with every Bienvenue employee eavesdropping outside?
Eavesdrop, having printed in a magazine some of the afterdinner conversations of the castle, had had sentence of exclusion passed upon him, on the motion of the Reverend Doctor Folliott, as a flagitious violator of the confidences of private life.
Lanyard was able to edge up behind him, when he paused at the guichet, and eavesdrop on his consultation with the clerk of the ticket bureau.
The lubras stayed in the little gunyah that the man had built, and plainly did not want to be caught eavesdropping.
Let us hope that Eavesdrop will sketch off Henbane, and that Henbane will poison him for his trouble.
Photographs were taken of equipment suspected of being used for acoustical surveillance and of the antenna field and ionospheric laboratory that had likely been used for eavesdropping.
I told what I knew of the Haluk Grand Design to overwhelm humanity, gleaned while I eavesdropped on the Servant of Servants and Council Locutor Ru Kamik as I floated in a dystasis tank in Macpherson Tower.
I was eavesdropping on the Haluk in dystasis, the Council Locutor, Ru Kamik, made some derogatory remarks about Emily Konigsberg.
The guard was prepared for the thumps and creaks and meatball ping-pong, the feathery throbs and fermented murmurs that were still lingua franca in AIDS-stifled America, but he was decidedly unprepared for what he heard next, a laudation that prompted him to cross himself and beg forgiveness for the imaginary sin of eavesdropping.
Careful investigation and clever eavesdropping had replaced the name of Tiger Marsh with that of Lifer Stone.
Also, unlike the aircraft, they could remain on station for weeks at a time, eavesdropping, locating transmitters, and analyzing the intelligence.