Definitions for eavesdrop

eavesdrop eaves·drop

Spelling: [eevz-drop]
IPA: /ˈivzˌdrɒp/

Eavesdrop is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 509 anagrams from letters in eavesdrop (adeeoprsv).

Definitions for eavesdrop

noun

  1. water that drips from the eaves.
  2. the ground on which such water falls.

verb (used with object)

  1. Archaic. to eavesdrop on.

verb (used without object)

  1. to listen secretly to a private conversation.

Origin of eavesdrop

before 900; (noun) Middle English evesdrope, evesdripe, Old English yfesdrype; as v., probably back formation from eavesdropper, late Middle English evisdroppyr, apparently literally, one who

Examples for eavesdrop

So I judged I'd got to do the other thing—lay for them and eavesdrop.

"You'd think there were better things to eavesdrop on than fishes," said Urson.

He was also a dead-on mimic, the kind of guy who could eavesdrop on a snatch of conversation and instantly spoof both ends.

A brilliant look into the lives of the 1980s East German Stasi (Secret Police) and the civilians they spy and eavesdrop on.

I said to him, 'It won't do, daddy, for you to eavesdrop at our doors.

NCIS managed to eavesdrop on phone calls Wright made to his mother, Valerie Burgess.

With no desire to eavesdrop, Mr. Green could not avoid overhearing the conversation.

One of the most popular is the X-37B can sneak up and eavesdrop on other satellites.

Let us hope that eavesdrop will sketch off Henbane, and that Henbane will poison him for his trouble.

But the FSB has far more power to eavesdrop on Russian and foreign citizens than the FBI or the NSA.

Word Value for eavesdrop
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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