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eavesdrop on someone

to listen in on people having a private conversation. I saw her eavesdropping on them. Please don't eavesdrop on me.

eavesdrop on something

to listen in on a private conversation. She was eavesdropping on their conversation. Maria was eavesdropping on the telephone call.

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The research stems from an earlier UW laboratory study that showed young sparrows acquire more of their songs when they eavesdrop on two birds than when they interact with a tutor. Sparrows 'learn songs by twitter' by Asian News International Senior officials at the gathering in the mountain resort of L''Aquila say the Italians wanted to use headphones to eavesdrop on high-level negotiations between other world leaders. G8 'SPYING' FURY; Italians accused of bugging secret summit talks by The Mirror (London, England) Byline: By DENISE MOORE THE former police officer at the heart of the row over the bugging of an MP claims he was asked to eavesdrop on a second legally-privileged conversation. More claims in bugging row; Officer asked to eavesdrop second meeting by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)			eat hat eat heart out eat humble pie eat in eat it up eat like a bird eat like a horse eat like a pig eat lunch Eat my shorts! eat off eat out eat out of eat out of hand eat out of house and home eat salt eat through Eat to live, not live to eat eat up eat up with Eat up! eat words eat your heart out! Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die eating eavesdrop on Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves ebb ebb and flow ebb away echo echo back to echo with eclipse economical economical with the truth economize on edge edge around edge away edge by edge out of edge with edgeways edgewise edit out of educate educate for educate in eel effect			Eaves channel Eaves channel eaves cornice eaves course Eaves dropping Eaves dropping eaves fascia eaves fascia eaves flashing eaves gutter eaves gutter eaves gutter eaves lath Eaves molding Eaves molding eaves plate eaves pole eaves soffit eaves spout Eaves swallow eaves tile eaves trough eaves trough eaves trough Eaves-droppers eavesdrop eavesdrop eavesdrop eavesdrop Eavesdrop and Register eavesdrop on eavesdropped eavesdropped eavesdropper eavesdropper eavesdropper eavesdroppers eavesdroppers eavesdroppers Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves eavesdropping eavesdropping eavesdropping eavesdrops eavesdrops Eavestrough eavestroughs EAVG EAVN EAVP EAVPC EAVPT EAVR EAVRO EAVS EAVST EAVV EAVW EAW Eawa EAWAG

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