overhearing

English

Verb

overhearing

1. present participle and gerund of overhear

Noun

overhearing (plural overhearings)

1. The act by which something is overheard.
   • 2006, Amy Shuman, Storytelling Rights, page 25:

     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.