Definitions for eavesdrops

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

Eavesdrops is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 627 anagrams from letters in eavesdrops (adeeoprssv).

Definitions for eavesdrops

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 eavesdrops

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 eavesdrops

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for eavesdrops
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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