hears

Verb

hear (third-person singular simple present hears, present participle hearing, simple past and past participle heard)

1. (intransitive, stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.
   • I was deaf, but now I can hear.
2. (stative, transitive) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
   • I could hear them quarreling upstairs, but didn’t really listen to their argument.

   Synonyms:

   catch

3. (transitive) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
   • Agayne there was dissencion amonge the iewes for these sayinges, and many of them sayd: He hath the devyll, and is madde: why heare ye hym?1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John
4. (transitive) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
   • Eventually the king chose to hear her entreaties.
5. (transitive) To receive information about; to come to learn of.
   • Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank […]1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
6. To be contacted by.
   • I haven't heard from you in a while; how have you been?

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