Meaning of overlisten | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To overhear or eavesdrop.
   ambitransitive, rare
2. To listen (to something) excessively.
   rare

Examples

“You overlistened and heard me read the crystal, so to-night you know the King has commanded me to interpret the story.”

“"I told you it is not logical." Hannah paced the floor. "But it's true. Before, I listened to Neil and the officers without any feelings of eavesdropping. But now I feel as if my ears were as big as saucers when I overlisten the most trivial snatches of conversation."”

“Never mind that I had no right to do so—that at such an hour, and in such a place, this must be a private conversation. I did not hesitate to overlisten it.”

“Having a person across the way who insisted, for the better part of September and October, on playing the new disc for at least three hours a day make one wonder how long it will take "rock's newest superstar" to become as overlistened to as the Beach Boys, Dave Mason, and the Eagles.”

“As the last heirs of the German humanities, these scholars saw their legacy disappearing in the solecisms of Nazi Deutsch. Here is why they may have overlistened and overreacted to American kitsch. What had already happened in Germany must not take place again.”

“Several years ago, in a misguided effort to reclaim closet space, I threw out all my CDs. Yes, all of them. I figured I'd uploaded most to my computer, and the rest I'd overlistened to anyway.”

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