hear

To perceive sounds through the ear.

I was deaf, but now I can hear.

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.

Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.

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?

It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”

To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).

Eventually the king chose to hear her entreaties.

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 […]

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Y'all come back now, hear?