eavesdrop
eevzd rop
- v listen without the speaker's knowledge
the jealous man was eavesdropping on his wife's conversations
- Senators vote 69-28 to expand the government's ability to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists.
- In the mid-1980s, the CIA cut a deal with Lebanese military intelligence to fund a sophisticated listening post in the Lebanese mountains that could eavesdrop on conversations .
- And through Internet telephony, you can even talk to or eavesdrop on anyone nearby.