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What is the verb for hear?

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hear
  1. (intransitive) To perceive sounds through the ear. [from 10th c.]
  2. (transitive) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. [from 10th c.]
  3. (transitive) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. [from 10th c.]
  4. (transitive) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.). [from 10th c.]
  5. (transitive) To receive information about; to come to learn of. [from 10th c.]
  6. (transitive) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try. [from 12th c.]
  7. (transitive, informal) To sympathize with; to share the feeling or opinion of.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “I would hear voices whispering in and out of sleep, almost as though I were in a spiritual realm.”
      “I suspect we will hear more details concerning the incident as they unfold.”
      “Three appeal court judges will hear the case as he launches his defense against the charges.”
hea'
  1. Eye dialect spelling of hear, representing African American Vernacular English.
hearin'
  1. Eye dialect spelling of hearing.
rehearing
  1. present participle of rehear
hearing
heare
  1. Obsolete spelling of hear
rehear
  1. to hear again
  2. Examples:
    1. “That is contrary to the statute which has conferred upon it the power of rehearing and the duty to rehear and redetermine these cases.”
      “Since music is essentially a temporal art, in live performance there is no chance for the listener to rehear a detail or part of a work.”
      “We would submit that it is not open to the Court of Appeal to rehear a case on grounds that have not been advanced in the court below.”
rehears
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rehear
  2. Examples:
    1. “The court has 25 active judges, one of whom recused herself, and it rehears cases only when a majority votes to do so.”
      “It is a mysterious process not unlike that when the present reworks the past, as one rehears and re-evaluates a performance in memory, moments, hours or days after the fact.”
      “In the first example, the same court rehears the case.”
hears
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hear
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Throughout his discussion, he uses a different and darker language than the optimistic tones one hears from the avid acolytes of progress.”
      “The sound of horses stopping and the jingle of the reigns is all she hears.”
      “She hears the grandfather clock chiming, but when she looks at it, it is running backwards.”
heareth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of hear
  2. Examples:
    1. “Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendoes.”
hearest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of hear
  2. Examples:
    1. “And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?”
heardst
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of hear
heardest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of hear
  2. Examples:
    1. “Who heardest judgment in Sina, and in Horeb the judgments of vengeance.”
heard
  1. simple past tense and past participle of hear
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Everyone came to the wedding, including a distant cousin no one had heard from in years.”
      “I have heard of Dahomey, of course, and its horrible customs, but I don't know anything about Abeokuta.”
      “I had heard there was a traffic jam on the highway, so I took the side roads.”
heared
  1. (nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of hear
  2. Examples:
    1. “Schneidewind can be regularly heared at lectures and readings and he organizes himself reader circles.”
      “You surely already heared about the danger related to payment through the Internet.”
      “When the locks for the square profiles rest in a locking sound can clearly be heared!”
reheard
  1. past participle of rehear
  2. Examples:
    1. “In my view, the tribunal, on all the facts before it at the time it reheard the matter, came to the correct decision.”
      “Family resemblances can be studied at length between reunions, and stories heard and reheard.”
      “The accused were brought from Lancaster to Barrow by order of the Home Secretary, and the charge against them was reheard.”
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