Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of overhear
nounoverhearing (plural overhearings)
plural overhearings
- The act by which something is overheard.
Where overhearings were intended, as in conversations that girls wanted boys to overhear, the speaker often directed her gaze at the boy who was supposed to overhear while turning her mouth toward the ear of the listener.
2006, Amy Shuman, Storytelling Rights, page 25
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