PERUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peruse mean? 

• PERUSE (verb)
  The verb PERUSE has 1 sense:

1. examine or consider with attention and in detail

  Familiarity information: PERUSE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERUSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they peruse    ... he / she / it peruses   
Past simple: perused   
Past participle: perused   
-ing form: perusing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Examine or consider with attention and in detail

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

Please peruse this report at your leisure

Hypernyms (to "peruse" is one way to...):

examine; see (observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "peruse"):

flick; flip; leaf; riff; riffle; thumb (look through a book or other written material)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

perusal; perusing (reading carefully with intent to remember)

 Context examples 

Sitting on a low stool, a few yards from her arm-chair, I examined her figure; I perused her features.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have carefully perused them three times.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

After perusing it, I taxed Miss Spenlow with having many such letters in her possession; and ultimately obtained from her the packet which is now in David Copperfield's hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Till she had made herself mistress of its contents, however, she could have neither repose nor comfort; and with the sun's first rays she was determined to peruse it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul and lifted it to heaven.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She was engaged one day as she walked, in perusing Jane's last letter, and dwelling on some passages which proved that Jane had not written in spirits, when, instead of being again surprised by Mr. Darcy, she saw on looking up that Colonel Fitzwilliam was meeting her.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mary perused it in silence, and returned it to her brother.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have perused many of their books, especially those in history and morality.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He sat placidly perusing the newspaper, with his little head on one side, and a glass of warm sherry negus at his elbow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She seized, with an unsteady hand, the precious manuscript, for half a glance sufficed to ascertain written characters; and while she acknowledged with awful sensations this striking exemplification of what Henry had foretold, resolved instantly to peruse every line before she attempted to rest.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)