eavesdropped in English

verb
1
secretly listen to a conversation.
she opened the window just enough to eavesdrop on the conversation outside
synonyms:listen in onspy onmonitortapwiretaprecordoverhearsnoop onbug
verb

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1. 10 The traders in the vicinity eavesdropped.

2. The government illegally eavesdropped on his telephone conversations.

3. The housemaid eavesdropped from behind the kitchen door.

4. 2 The government illegally eavesdropped on his telephone conversations.

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

6. Study coauthor Moran Cerf and his colleagues eavesdropped on single neurons with electrodes that had already been implanted for medical reasons in the brains of people with epilepsy.