[
UK
/ˈiːvzdɹɒp/
]
[ US /ˈivzˌdɹɑp/ ]
[ US /ˈivzˌdɹɑp/ ]
VERB
-
listen without the speaker's knowledge
the jealous man was eavesdropping on his wife's conversations
How To Use eavesdrop In A Sentence
- The eavesdropping charges arose from his use of keylogging software to spy on victims' net activities in 2000.
- Modern technology enables eavesdroppers to pick up conversations through windows or walls.
- I eavesdropped on a conversation between two men seated next to me.
- It's a pity, then, that GCHQ is short of ethnic-minority staff who can actually eavesdrop on, for example, suspected terrorists. Michael Gove wears dunce cap over UK school buildings list fiasco
- And it would be yesterday morning again, and she hadn't been up to Hunter Ward and eavesdropped on a conversation.
- Since the eavesdropper doesn't know the starting point, he can't decrypt the message.
- In most cases, it is difficult to detect that some one is eavesdropping.
- The government illegally eavesdropped on his telephone conversations.
- At one point, Kirie asks her father about his conversation with the aforementioned spiral fetishist, provoking him to indignantly accuse her of eavesdropping.
- I return to my seat long before the bell and eavesdrop on the conversation of the couple behind.