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 Translation for 'eavesdrop' from English to Dutch
NOUN   eavesdrop | eavesdrops
VERB   to eavesdrop | eavesdropped | eavesdropped
eavesdropping | eavesdrops
SYNO to eavesdrop | to listen in
afluisterento eavesdrop
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Translation for 'eavesdrop' from English to Dutch

to eavesdrop
afluisteren
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Usage Examples English
  • They can only understand the present tense, a trait which leads to much confusion when they eavesdrop on others.
  • Wi-Fi users may be subjected to a Wi-Fi deauthentication attack to eavesdrop, attack passwords, or force the use of another, usually more expensive access point.
  • In "The Understudy", after she thinks her Korean manicurists are making fun of her, she angers them by bringing in Frank Costanza, who is fluent in Korean, to eavesdrop on them.
  • Mental radios featured prominently in a plot by Nazi agent Fausta Grables to steal a device in order to eavesdrop on Wonder Woman and her companions.
  • An evil twin is a fraudulent Wi-Fi access point that appears to be legitimate but is set up to eavesdrop on wireless communications.

  • Suppose Alice wishes to communicate with Bob. Meanwhile, Mallory wishes to intercept the conversation to eavesdrop and optionally to deliver a false message to Bob.
  • 8 (43): Julian rebuts his father's criticism of Bridgenorth, who takes him to eavesdrop on a conventicle of activists and deploys extremist rhetoric himself.
  • If Alice and Bob use random number generators whose outputs are not completely random and can be predicted to some extent, then it is much easier to eavesdrop.
  • A laser microphone is a surveillance device that uses a laser beam to detect sound vibrations in a distant object. It can be used to eavesdrop with minimal chance of exposure.
  • In early 2000, federal agencies conducted a counterintelligence investigation to determine if Amdocs was being used by Israel to eavesdrop on U.S.

  • After 1985, it was used by the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens under its Fairview surveillance program.
  • While she sleeps, Spensa is able to commune with Jorgen and eavesdrop on Winzik and Brade, who she finds successfully making a deal with the delvers to assert the Superiority's authority in exchange for killing all the cytonics.
  • Eve conceals her fluency in German so she can eavesdrop on conversations at the restaurant and pass on valuable intelligence to Lili and her lieutenant “Violette” (Léonie van Houtte).
  • Parallel scenes 1: The "rat soldier" (tasked to eavesdrop) received instructions under the command of Cheol-gang.
  • Voting was done "viva voce". Individuals would walk up to a table and orally announce their vote, for all to eavesdrop upon. Each ward had a single polling place.

  • Osborne was elected mayor of Auburn in 1902, serving two terms. He was known to disguise himself and visit local taverns to eavesdrop on conversations to get a sense of public opinion.
  • The drifters break into an empty house next door, eavesdrop on her, and learn that she is unhappily married to an older man named Roger.
  • The verb "eavesdrop" is a back-formation from the noun "eavesdropper" ("a person who eavesdrops"), which was formed from the related noun "eavesdrop" ("the dripping of water from the eaves of a house; the ground on which such water falls").
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