"read someone's mind" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-read someone's mind.ogg Forms: reads someone's mind [present, singular, third-person], reading someone's mind [participle, present], read someone's mind [participle, past], read someone's mind [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|read<,,read> someone's mind}} read someone's mind (third-person singular simple present reads someone's mind, present participle reading someone's mind, simple past and past participle read someone's mind)
  1. (idiomatic) To guess or deduce what someone is thinking. Tags: idiomatic Derived forms: read minds Related terms: have one's head read Translations (to guess what someone is thinking): 讀懂某人的心思 (Chinese Mandarin), 读懂某人的心思 (dúdǒng mǒurén de xīnsī) (Chinese Mandarin), lukea jonkun ajatukset (Finnish), lire dans les pensées (French), ler a mente de alguém (Portuguese), чита́ть мы́сли (čitátʹ mýsli) (Russian), leer la mente (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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      "word": "ler a mente de alguém"
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