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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɡlɪmps/ Audio: en-us-glimpse.ogg Forms: glimpses [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪmps Etymology: From earlier glimse, from Middle English glimsen (“to glisten, be dazzling, glance with the eyes”), akin to Middle High German glimsen (“to glow, smoulder”). Compare also Middle Dutch glinsen, Middle Low German glinsen, glintzen, glinzen (“to shine, shimmer”), Middle High German glinsen (“to shine, glimmer”), Dutch glinsteren (“to glitter, sparkle, shimmer, glint, glance”), Dutch glimmen (“to shine, gleam”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|glimsen|t=to glisten, be dazzling, glance with the eyes}} Middle English glimsen (“to glisten, be dazzling, glance with the eyes”), {{cog|gmh|glimsen|t=to glow, smoulder}} Middle High German glimsen (“to glow, smoulder”), {{cog|dum|glinsen}} Middle Dutch glinsen, {{cog|gml|glinsen}} Middle Low German glinsen, {{cog|gmh|glinsen|t=to shine, glimmer}} Middle High German glinsen (“to shine, glimmer”), {{cog|nl|glinsteren|t=to glitter, sparkle, shimmer, glint, glance}} Dutch glinsteren (“to glitter, sparkle, shimmer, glint, glance”), {{cog|nl|glimmen|t=to shine, gleam}} Dutch glimmen (“to shine, gleam”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} glimpse (plural glimpses)
  1. A brief look, glance, or peek. Translations (brief look): бегъл поглед (begǎl pogled) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ullada [feminine] (Catalan), cop d'ull [masculine] (Catalan), glimp [masculine] (Dutch), ekvido (Esperanto), vilahdus (Finnish), pilkahdus (Finnish), aperçu [masculine] (French), ollada [feminine] (Galician), Blick [masculine] (German), הצצה (hatzatza) (Hebrew), spléachadh [masculine] (Irish), occhiata [feminine] (Italian), scorcio (Italian), kitenga wheriko (Maori), wheriko (Maori), apèrchévance [feminine] (Norman), ulhada [feminine] (Occitan), لمز (lamz) (Persian), olhadela [feminine] (Portuguese), бе́глый взгляд (béglyj vzgljad) [masculine] (Russian), plathadh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), skymt [common-gender] (Swedish), glimt [common-gender] (Swedish), cip [masculine] (Welsh), אויגנבליק (oygnblik) [masculine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-glimpse-en-noun-OOgV2pXf Disambiguation of 'brief look': 91 4 5
  2. (archaic) A sudden flash, a glimmer. Tags: archaic Translations (sudden flash): проблясък (probljasǎk) [masculine] (Bulgarian), välähdys (Finnish), ateibo [masculine] (Galician), asexo [masculine] (Galician), relance [masculine] (Galician), Aufblitzen [neuter] (German), Aufleuchten [neuter] (German), проблесок (problesok) [masculine] (Macedonian), relance [masculine] (Portuguese), проблеск (próblesk) [masculine] (Russian), atisbo (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-glimpse-en-noun-gjC-bix2 Disambiguation of 'sudden flash': 2 97 1
  3. (figurative) A faint idea; an inkling. Tags: figuratively Translations (faint idea): Schimmer [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-glimpse-en-noun-BUAa2Lh1 Disambiguation of 'faint idea': 1 3 96
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: glinse, glimse [obsolete]

Verb [English]

IPA: /ɡlɪmps/ Audio: en-us-glimpse.ogg Forms: glimpses [present, singular, third-person], glimpsing [participle, present], glimpsed [participle, past], glimpsed [past]
Rhymes: -ɪmps Etymology: From earlier glimse, from Middle English glimsen (“to glisten, be dazzling, glance with the eyes”), akin to Middle High German glimsen (“to glow, smoulder”). Compare also Middle Dutch glinsen, Middle Low German glinsen, glintzen, glinzen (“to shine, shimmer”), Middle High German glinsen (“to shine, glimmer”), Dutch glinsteren (“to glitter, sparkle, shimmer, glint, glance”), Dutch glimmen (“to shine, gleam”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|glimsen|t=to glisten, be dazzling, glance with the eyes}} Middle English glimsen (“to glisten, be dazzling, glance with the eyes”), {{cog|gmh|glimsen|t=to glow, smoulder}} Middle High German glimsen (“to glow, smoulder”), {{cog|dum|glinsen}} Middle Dutch glinsen, {{cog|gml|glinsen}} Middle Low German glinsen, {{cog|gmh|glinsen|t=to shine, glimmer}} Middle High German glinsen (“to shine, glimmer”), {{cog|nl|glinsteren|t=to glitter, sparkle, shimmer, glint, glance}} Dutch glinsteren (“to glitter, sparkle, shimmer, glint, glance”), {{cog|nl|glimmen|t=to shine, gleam}} Dutch glimmen (“to shine, gleam”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} glimpse (third-person singular simple present glimpses, present participle glimpsing, simple past and past participle glimpsed)
  1. (transitive) To see or view briefly or incompletely. Tags: transitive Synonyms: perceive, notice, detect, espy, spot, catch sight of Translations (see briefly): ndzãrescu (Aromanian), зървам (zǎrvam) (Bulgarian), съзирам (sǎziram) (Bulgarian), zahlédnout (Czech), een glimp opvangen (Dutch), ekvidi (Esperanto), silmäillä (Finnish), vilkaista (Finnish), entrevoir (French), albiscar (Galician), entdecken (German), erhaschen (German), βλέπω φευγαλέα (vlépo fevgaléa) (Greek), intravedere (Italian), kite wheriko (Maori), wheriko (Maori), entrevéser (Occitan), vislumbrar (Portuguese), întrezări (Romanian), zări (Romanian), уви́деть ме́льком (uvídetʹ mélʹkom) (english: to see) [perfective] (Russian), бе́гло взгляну́ть (béglo vzgljanútʹ) (english: to view) [perfective] (Russian), гля́нуть (gljánutʹ) (english: to glance) [perfective] (Russian), entrever (Spanish), atisbar (Spanish), vislumbrar (Spanish), ojear (Spanish), skymta [common-gender] (Swedish), glimta [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-glimpse-en-verb-P-GUcC5u Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Aromanian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norman translations, Terms with Occitan translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Welsh translations, Terms with Yiddish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 7 14 55 7 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 8 9 9 63 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 9 16 53 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 7 8 69 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Aromanian translations: 11 11 11 57 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 9 9 18 55 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 10 10 16 56 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 12 13 16 51 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 11 11 12 51 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 9 9 9 62 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 9 10 16 56 9 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 9 10 13 54 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 9 10 16 56 9 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 11 11 11 57 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 23 11 12 41 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 9 10 16 56 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 10 10 16 56 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 8 9 9 63 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 11 9 15 55 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 9 10 16 56 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Norman translations: 12 10 16 53 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Occitan translations: 11 11 11 56 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 12 9 15 55 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 11 9 14 58 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 9 9 15 59 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 9 9 10 60 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations: 10 10 16 55 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 8 8 9 63 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 9 9 15 58 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 10 11 11 53 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Yiddish translations: 10 10 11 59 10 Disambiguation of 'see briefly': 100 0
  2. (intransitive) To appear by glimpses. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-glimpse-en-verb-FKqXEzs8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: glinse, glimse [obsolete]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Light as the lightning glimpse they ran.",
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        }
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        "A sudden flash, a glimmer."
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        "(archaic) A sudden flash, a glimmer."
      ],
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        "archaic"
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      "glosses": [
        "A faint idea; an inkling."
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          "inkling"
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        "(figurative) A faint idea; an inkling."
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    {
      "word": "glinse"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "begǎl pogled",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бегъл поглед"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ullada"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cop d'ull"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "glimp"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "word": "ekvido"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "word": "vilahdus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "word": "pilkahdus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aperçu"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ollada"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Blick"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "hatzatza",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "word": "הצצה"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "spléachadh"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "occhiata"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "word": "scorcio"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "word": "kitenga wheriko"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "word": "wheriko"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "apèrchévance"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ulhada"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "lamz",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "word": "لمز"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "olhadela"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "béglyj vzgljad",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бе́глый взгляд"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plathadh"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skymt"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "glimt"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cip"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "oygnblik",
      "sense": "brief look",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "אויגנבליק"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "probljasǎk",
      "sense": "sudden flash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "проблясък"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sudden flash",
      "word": "välähdys"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "sudden flash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ateibo"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "sudden flash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "asexo"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "sudden flash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "relance"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sudden flash",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Aufblitzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sudden flash",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Aufleuchten"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "problesok",
      "sense": "sudden flash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "проблесок"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "sudden flash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "relance"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "próblesk",
      "sense": "sudden flash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "проблеск"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sudden flash",
      "word": "atisbo"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "faint idea",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Schimmer"
    }
  ],
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}

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    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
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    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
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    "Terms with Occitan translations",
    "Terms with Persian translations",
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    "Terms with Romanian translations",
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    "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
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    {
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "glimmen",
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        {
          "text": "I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, Florence Earle Coates, “Cendrillon”, in Poems, volume I:",
          "text": "A hope that, glimpsed, must fade; / ⁠A form, illusion made, / That, vanishing, shall come no more again!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 8, in The Whisperer in Darkness:",
          "text": "Those wild hills are surely the outpost of a frightful cosmic race—as I doubt all the less since reading that a new ninth planet has been glimpsed beyond Neptune, just as those influences had said it would be glimpsed.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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          "view"
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          "incomplete"
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        "(transitive) To see or view briefly or incompletely."
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        {
          "word": "perceive"
        },
        {
          "word": "notice"
        },
        {
          "word": "detect"
        },
        {
          "word": "espy"
        },
        {
          "word": "spot"
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        {
          "word": "catch sight of"
        }
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          "ref": "1596, Michael Drayton, “Mortimeriados. The Lamentable Ciuell Warres of Edward the Second and the Barrons.”, in J[ohn] Payne Collier, editor, Poems by Michael Drayton. […], London: […] J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols and Sons, […] [for the Roxburghe Club], published 1856, →OCLC, page 315:",
          "text": "Straight waies on heaps the thrunging clouds doe rise, / As though the heauen were angry with the night, / Deformed shadowes glimpsing in his sight; […]",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To appear by glimpses."
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        "(intransitive) To appear by glimpses."
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      "ipa": "/ɡlɪmps/"
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      "rhymes": "-ɪmps"
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    {
      "word": "glinse"
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      "tags": [
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "rup",
      "lang": "Aromanian",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "ndzãrescu"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zǎrvam",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "зървам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sǎziram",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "съзирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "zahlédnout"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "een glimp opvangen"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "ekvidi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "silmäillä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "vilkaista"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "entrevoir"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "albiscar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "entdecken"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "erhaschen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "vlépo fevgaléa",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "βλέπω φευγαλέα"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "intravedere"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "kite wheriko"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "wheriko"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "entrevéser"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "vislumbrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "întrezări"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "zări"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "to see",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "uvídetʹ mélʹkom",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "уви́деть ме́льком"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "to view",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "béglo vzgljanútʹ",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "бе́гло взгляну́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "to glance",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gljánutʹ",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "гля́нуть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "entrever"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "atisbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "vislumbrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "word": "ojear"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skymta"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "see briefly",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "glimta"
    }
  ],
  "word": "glimpse"
}

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