Another word for hear
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Verb
To perceive by ear, usually attentively
- To listen attentively; give heed.
- To make an effort to hear something:
- To pay attention; heed:
- An act of listening:
- To pay attention to; listen to and consider:
- To pay attention.
- Close attention; notice.
- To listen attentively.
- To be present at:
- To go regularly to:
- To accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result:
Idioms:See also:To obtain knowledge or awareness of something not known before, as through observation or study
- To gain knowledge of or skill in through study, instruction, or experience:
- To become aware or informed of; find out:
- To fix in the mind or memory; memorize:
- To come upon, often by accident; meet with:
- To come upon or discover by searching or making an effort:
- To discover or ascertain through observation, experience, or study:
- To notice or learn, especially by making an effort:
- To be the first, or the first of one's group or kind, to find, learn of, or observe.
- To learn about for the first time in one's experience:
- To establish or ascertain definitely, as after consideration, investigation, or calculation:
- To give direction to by making decisions; devise or control:
- To decide or settle (a dispute, for example) conclusively and authoritatively.
- To discover with certainty, as through examination or experimentation.
- To make certain, definite, and precise.
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Another word for hear
Verb
To perceive by ear
- To listen without participating.
- (idiomatic) To eavesdrop; to listen secretly.
- To hear (speech or someone speaking) without the speaker's awareness or intent.
- To hear something without the speaker's awareness or intent.
- To discover or ascertain the existence, presence, or fact of.
- To discern (something hidden or subtle):
- To learn something hidden and often improper about:
- To listen secretly to the private conversation of others.
- To gain access to private electronic communications, as through wiretapping or the interception of e-mail or cell phone calls.
- The act or an instance of swindling or cheating; a deception.
- To take into custody; arrest:
- To grasp mentally; understand:
- To become conscious of, as through the emotions or senses; perceive:
- To catch sight of (something difficult to discern).
- To discover by careful observation or scrutiny; detect:
- To get and hold (something that has been in motion) in a hand, the hands, a container, or an implement:
- To take hold of, especially forcibly or suddenly; grasp:
- To stop (oneself) from doing an action:
- To examine by auscultation.
- To listen attentively.
- To listen attentively; give heed.
See also:To receive information aurally
- To attend a private meeting without participating.
- (idiomatic) To hear about; to learn of, especially with respect to facts intended to have been kept confidential or secret.
- To become aware of the nature and significance of; know or comprehend:
- To become aware of the intended meaning of (a person or remark, for example):
- To know and be tolerant or sympathetic toward:
- To perceive (something) while being conscious of perceiving.
- To perceive (something) in terms of past experience.
- To collect from different places; assemble:
- To cause to come together; convene:
- To draw (something or someone) closer to oneself:
- To notice or learn, especially by making an effort:
- To be the first, or the first of one's group or kind, to find, learn of, or observe.
- To learn about for the first time in one's experience:
- To catch sight of (something difficult to discern).
- To discover by careful observation or scrutiny; detect:
- To discover with certainty, as through examination or experimentation.
- To make certain, definite, and precise.
- To gain knowledge of or skill in through study, instruction, or experience:
- To become aware or informed of; find out:
- To fix in the mind or memory; memorize:
- To get and hold (something that has been in motion) in a hand, the hands, a container, or an implement:
- To take hold of, especially forcibly or suddenly; grasp:
- To stop (oneself) from doing an action:
- To listen secretly to the private conversation of others.
- To gain access to private electronic communications, as through wiretapping or the interception of e-mail or cell phone calls.
- To hear (speech or someone speaking) without the speaker's awareness or intent.
- To hear something without the speaker's awareness or intent.
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Idioms:
not hear of
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