Eavesdrop (Verb)
Meaning
Listen without the speaker's knowledge; "the jealous man was eavesdropping on his wife's conversations".
Classification
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling.
Examples
- The hotel employee was eavesdropping on the rival company's executives through the ventilation system.
- She had been eavesdropping on her brother's phone calls for weeks, worried about his involvement with a suspicious friend.
- The tabloid journalist was accused of eavesdropping on the celebrity's private conversations to get exclusive gossip.
- They caught the private investigator eavesdropping on their phone calls with wiretapping equipment.
- The detective was eavesdropping on the suspect's conversation through a hidden microphone in the interrogation room.