overheard
Verb
The word is derived from overhear
Meaning
of Overhear
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
A mailman in Michigan who said he overheard a conversation about back-dating ballots later admitted in an interview with the IG's office that 'I didn't hear the whole story – my mind probably added the rest.'
A Cordova man was arrested by Jasper police Thursday after he was overheard making threats against local officials.
In a recording of his interview, the postal worker can be heard admitting he made “assumptions” based on snippets of a conversation he overheard, and declined to stand by his original statement.
Berlin overheard their conversation, and although the show was to go into rehearsal with days, he wrote the score to "Anything You Can Do" a few hours later.
As I left the House chamber, I overheard a representative telling a reporter who had asked about his naked face that there’s no evidence that masks work.
Freeman walked several miles to the home of one of the men she overheard writing the Sheffield Resolves.