Miss and Overhear

Opposite meaning words

Miss verb - To fail to attend.

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Overhear is an antonym for miss.

Nearby Words: missed, missing

Overhear verb - To listen to (another in private conversation).

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Miss is an antonym for overhear in topics: hear, hear and pay attention.

Nearby Word: overhearing

It's not uncommon for a non-gamer to overhear a gamer out in public discussing killing someone in a game, but miss the video game context, and shooting them either a horrified or dirty look.

Source: Less Disturbing in Context
The Powerpuff Girls: In "Little Miss Interprets", the girls overhear the Professor ranting about how poorly me made three cakes intended for a party he's throwing for them; from what they hear, they believe that he wants to get rid of them and make new Powerpuff Girls from scratch.

Source: Out-of-Context Eavesdropping
In The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, when the protagonists Bonnie and Sylvia overhear Miss Slighcarp discussing the planned murder of their parents, she refers to it as simply "the event."

Source: Deadly Euphemism

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