See peruse on Wiktionary
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"text": "Sitting on a low stool, a few yards from her arm-chair, I examined her figure; I perused her features.",
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"sense": "to examine or consider with care",
"word": "zorgvuldig onderzoeken"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to examine or consider with care",
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"sense": "to examine or consider with care",
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"ref": "1647, William Petty, The Advice to Hartlib:",
"text": "This survey may be made by perusing al Books and taking notice of all Mechanicall Inventions.",
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"ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
"text": "We are for reasons that, after perusing this manuscript, you may be able to guess, going away again this time to Central Asia […]",
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"ref": "1960, William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Simon & Schuster, page 81:",
"text": "Not every German who bought a copy of Mein Kampf necessarily read it. […]But it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it before 1933 and had the foreign statesmen of the world perused it carefully while there still was time, both Germany and the world might have been saved from catastrophe.",
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"(transitive) To read completely."
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"ref": "2001, Doug Stanton, In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis, →ISBN, page 35:",
"text": "Haynes quickly perused the message, then took it to the captain on the bridge.",
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"ref": "2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex, →ISBN, page 98:",
"text": "She asked Denise for the court file, which she fussed from her handbag. The woman perused it briefly and then beamed up at me.",
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"word": "jeter un coup d’œil"
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"word": "survoler"
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"sense": "look over casually",
"word": "überfliegen"
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"word": "átolvas"
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"word": "átfut"
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"word": "áttekint"
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"word": "просмотре́ть"
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"word": "ojear"
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"_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
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"word": "hojear"
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{
"_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
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"word": "leer por encima"
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"_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
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"word": "ver por encima"
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"sense": "to examine or consider with care",
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"sense": "to examine or consider with care",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.