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hear

verb

1 behind her she could hear men's voices:

perceive, catch, get, make out, take in, apprehend, discern;

overhear;

listen to, attend to, give ear to.

2 they heard that I had moved:

be informed, be told, find out, discover, learn, gather, glean, ascertain, get word, be made aware, be given to understand, hear tell, get wind, pick up.

▷antonyms be unaware.

3 an all-woman jury heard the case:

try, judge, sit in judgement on;

adjudicate (on), adjudge, pass judgement on, give a ruling on.

hear Oxford Dictionary of English