hear.

When one is angry and anxious, there is not very much that you can really "hear."

Paul Abrams: October Surprise: Two Ads That Could Turn the Mid-Terms on its Head Paul Abrams 2010

She would dance and clap her hands when she felt the vibration of certain minor chords, and come running to the visitors and attract their attention to the sounds that she could "hear."

Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long

-- A speech spoken within the sight and hearing of other actors, but which they, as characters in the act, do not "hear."

Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page

There was a pause, and then from the face of a huge white snow-cliff there came back the word "hear."

To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze George Manville Fenn 1870

In the verses before the text he proposes the compromise of the pit, and the others 'hear.'

Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868

Now, whether he thinks I was just telling him what I thought he might want to hear. . .

Voices Carry Mariah Stewart 2001

I think he just presumed he’d drugged me sufficiently not to hear. . .

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010