overlistens

Verb

overlisten (third-person singular simple present overlistens, present participle overlistening, simple past and past participle overlistened)

1. (ambitransitive, rare) To overhear or eavesdrop.
   • You overlistened and heard me read the crystal, so to-night you know the King has commanded me to interpret the story.1920, Virginia Sheard, The Golden Apple Tree, New York, N.Y.: The James A. McCann Company, page 207
2. (rare) To listen (to something) excessively.
   • 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.1975 December 10, John Cale, “From the Sewers of the Subconscious”, in The Villanovan, volume 51, number 11, Villanova, P.A.: Villanova University, page 9