Definition of Eavesdropped

1. Verb. (past of eavesdrop) ¹

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Definition of Eavesdropped

1. eavesdrop [v] - See also: eavesdrop

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eavesdropped

eau de nils
eau de toilette
eau de vie
eaus
eaux
eave
eaved
eavedrop
eavedrops
eaves
eaves trough
eaves troughs
eavesdrip
eavesdrips
eavesdrop
eavesdropped (current term)
eavesdropper
eavesdroppers
eavesdroppingly
eavesdroppings
eavesdrops
eavestrough
eavestroughs
eaw
eazily
eazy
ebastine
ebauche
ebauches

Literary usage of Eavesdropped

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"When he has eavesdropped, a proceeding fully justified by the statecraft of the time, his desire to get rid of Hamlet, somehow, is natural, and it does not ..."

2. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"That night, worried, for once I eavesdropped, and heard him with his own soul: "To think of it! To think of it!" he wrestled with despair. ..."

3. The Bookman (1899)
"... would never waste the hours due to sleep upon treason to the man who deserved better of them." "You should have eavesdropped ..."

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