Antonyms for eavesdropping


Grammar : Verb
Spell : eevz-drop
Phonetic Transcription : ˈivzˌdrɒp


Definition of eavesdropping

Origin :
  • c.1600, probably a back-formation from eavesdropper. Related: Eavesdropping.
  • verb listen without permission
Example sentences :
  • Was it right for her to be eavesdropping when older people were talking, the little goose?
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • Besides, she did not wish her father and mother to know she had been eavesdropping.
  • Extract from : « Polly of Lady Gay Cottage » by Emma C. Dowd
  • In it, his words were not vulnerable to the sono-beam's eavesdropping.
  • Extract from : « Zero Data » by Charles Saphro
  • Their eavesdropping vibrations, with audible projection, were upon me.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 » by Various
  • He did not mean the blinking, eavesdropping humbug to force his action.
  • Extract from : « End of the Tether » by Joseph Conrad
  • Heaven only knows what eavesdropping and relaying he has done.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 » by Various
  • The whole country studied Brown's letters with the rapture of eavesdropping.
  • Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
  • It was as if his hovering soul had been eavesdropping on their thoughts.
  • Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
  • Relieved, yet ashamed of his eavesdropping, he ran down the road toward his home.
  • Extract from : « Patchwork » by Anna Balmer Myers
  • What he had learned by this eavesdropping he counted of peculiar value.
  • Extract from : « The Yellow Claw » by Sax Rohmer

Synonyms for eavesdropping

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