"peruse" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /pəˈɹuːz/ [UK, US] Audio: en-us-peruse.ogg [US], en-au-peruse.ogg [Australia] Forms: peruses [plural]
Rhymes: -uːz Etymology: From either Medieval Latin perūtor, perūsitō (“wear out”)) or Anglo-Norman peruser (“use up”)), originally leading to two concurrent meanings, but only those derived from "to examine" survive today. By surface analysis, per- + use. Etymology templates: {{der|en|ML.|perūtor}} Medieval Latin perūtor, {{m|la|perūsitō||wear out}} perūsitō (“wear out”), {{der|en|xno|peruser||use up}} Anglo-Norman peruser (“use up”), {{surf|en|per-|use}} By surface analysis, per- + use Head templates: {{en-noun}} peruse (plural peruses)
  1. An examination or perusal; an instance of perusing. Translations: внимателно разглеждане (vnimatelno razgleždane) (Bulgarian), 细读 (Xì dú) (Chinese Mandarin), 研读 (Yándú) (Chinese Mandarin), tutkimus (Finnish), tarkastelu (Finnish), examen [masculine] (French), áttekintés (Hungarian), átolvasás (Hungarian), áttanulmányozás (Hungarian), рассмотрение (rassmotrenije) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-peruse-en-noun-l3vT~1l5

Verb [English]

IPA: /pəˈɹuːz/ [UK, US] Audio: en-us-peruse.ogg [US], en-au-peruse.ogg [Australia] Forms: peruses [present, singular, third-person], perusing [participle, present], perused [participle, past], perused [past]
Rhymes: -uːz Etymology: From either Medieval Latin perūtor, perūsitō (“wear out”)) or Anglo-Norman peruser (“use up”)), originally leading to two concurrent meanings, but only those derived from "to examine" survive today. By surface analysis, per- + use. Etymology templates: {{der|en|ML.|perūtor}} Medieval Latin perūtor, {{m|la|perūsitō||wear out}} perūsitō (“wear out”), {{der|en|xno|peruser||use up}} Anglo-Norman peruser (“use up”), {{surf|en|per-|use}} By surface analysis, per- + use Head templates: {{en-verb}} peruse (third-person singular simple present peruses, present participle perusing, simple past and past participle perused)
  1. (transitive) To examine or consider with care. Tags: transitive Translations (to examine or consider with care): чета внимателно (četa vnimatelno) (Bulgarian), 细读 (Xì dú) (Chinese Mandarin), 研读 (Yándú) (Chinese Mandarin), prostudovat (Czech), prozkoumat (Czech), zorgvuldig onderzoeken (Dutch), tutkia (Finnish), examiner (French), studieren (German), genau unter die Lupe nehmen (German), εξετάζω (exetázo) (Greek), áttanulmányoz (Hungarian), szemügyre vesz (Hungarian), examinar (Portuguese), изуча́ть (izučátʹ) (alt: внима́тельно (vnimátelʹno)) [imperfective] (Russian), изучи́ть (izučítʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), рассма́тривать (rassmátrivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), рассмотре́ть (rassmotrétʹ) [perfective] (Russian), preštudovať (Slovak), preskúmať (Slovak), examinar (Spanish), granska (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-peruse-en-verb-u6~BhECb Disambiguation of 'to examine or consider with care': 90 0 10 0
  2. (transitive) To read completely. Tags: transitive Translations (to read completely): přečíst (Czech), pročíst (Czech), lukea huolellisesti (Finnish), durchlesen (German), μελετώ (meletó) (Greek), végigolvas (Hungarian), lesa gaumgæfilega (Icelandic), lesa (Icelandic), parkurar (Ido), parlektar (Ido), aalhaih (Manx), ler todo [masculine] (Portuguese), прочи́тывать (pročítyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), прочита́ть (pročitátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-peruse-en-verb-en:read_completely Disambiguation of 'to read completely': 0 99 1 0
  3. (transitive, informal) To look over casually; to skim. Tags: informal, transitive Translations (look over casually): prohlédnout (Czech), přelétnout (Czech), jeter un coup d’œil (French), survoler (French), feuilleter (French), überfliegen (German), átolvas (Hungarian), átfut (Hungarian), áttekint (Hungarian), просма́тривать (prosmátrivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), просмотре́ть (prosmotrétʹ) [perfective] (Russian), ojear (Spanish), hojear (Spanish), leer por encima (Spanish), ver por encima (Spanish), leer a la rápida (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-peruse-en-verb-MeYQvuUv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with per- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 3 3 49 6 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 32 4 3 52 8 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with per-: 23 14 12 33 17 Disambiguation of 'look over casually': 9 0 90 1
  4. (intransitive, regional) To go from place to place; to wander. Tags: intransitive, regional
    Sense id: en-peruse-en-verb--ev-8Vsg Categories (other): Regional English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: perusable, perusal, peruser

Verb [Latin]

Head templates: {{head|la|participle form}} peruse
  1. vocative masculine singular of perusus Tags: form-of, masculine, participle, singular, vocative Form of: perusus
    Sense id: en-peruse-la-verb-eW~plv5T Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for peruse meaning in All languages combined (14.9kB)

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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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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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        {
          "_dis1": "0 99 1 0",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to read completely",
          "word": "přečíst"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 99 1 0",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to read completely",
          "word": "pročíst"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 99 1 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to read completely",
          "word": "lukea huolellisesti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 99 1 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to read completely",
          "word": "durchlesen"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 99 1 0",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "meletó",
          "sense": "to read completely",
          "word": "μελετώ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 99 1 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to read completely",
          "word": "végigolvas"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 99 1 0",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to read completely",
          "word": "lesa gaumgæfilega"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 99 1 0",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to read completely",
          "word": "lesa"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 99 1 0",
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "to read completely",
          "word": "parkurar"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 99 1 0",
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "to read completely",
          "word": "parlektar"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 99 1 0",
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "to read completely",
          "word": "aalhaih"
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          "_dis1": "0 99 1 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to read completely",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ler todo"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 99 1 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "pročítyvatʹ",
          "sense": "to read completely",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "прочи́тывать"
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          "_dis1": "0 99 1 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "pročitátʹ",
          "sense": "to read completely",
          "tags": [
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        {
          "ref": "2001, Doug Stanton, In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis, page 35",
          "text": "Haynes quickly perused the message, then took it to the captain on the bridge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex, 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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "To look over casually; to skim."
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal) To look over casually; to skim."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
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        {
          "_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "look over casually",
          "word": "prohlédnout"
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        {
          "_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "look over casually",
          "word": "přelétnout"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "look over casually",
          "word": "jeter un coup d’œil"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "look over casually",
          "word": "survoler"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "look over casually",
          "word": "feuilleter"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "look over casually",
          "word": "überfliegen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "look over casually",
          "word": "átolvas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "look over casually",
          "word": "átfut"
        },
        {
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "look over casually",
          "word": "áttekint"
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        {
          "_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "prosmátrivatʹ",
          "sense": "look over casually",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "просма́тривать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "prosmotrétʹ",
          "sense": "look over casually",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "просмотре́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "look over casually",
          "word": "ojear"
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        {
          "_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "look over casually",
          "word": "hojear"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "look over casually",
          "word": "leer por encima"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "look over casually",
          "word": "ver por encima"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 0 90 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "look over casually",
          "word": "leer a la rápida"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1957, Robert Ruark, The Old Man And The Boy, page 55",
          "text": "I loved to straggle off in the mornings […], just perusing around for firewood.",
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        "To go from place to place; to wander."
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        "(intransitive, regional) To go from place to place; to wander."
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          "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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          "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, 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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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "četa vnimatelno",
      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "word": "чета внимателно"
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      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "word": "细读"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "Yándú",
      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "word": "研读"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "word": "prostudovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "word": "prozkoumat"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "word": "zorgvuldig onderzoeken"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "word": "tutkia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "word": "examiner"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "word": "studieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "word": "genau unter die Lupe nehmen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "exetázo",
      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "word": "εξετάζω"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "word": "áttanulmányoz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "word": "szemügyre vesz"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "word": "examinar"
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      "alt": "внима́тельно (vnimátelʹno)",
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      "roman": "izučátʹ",
      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "изуча́ть"
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      "roman": "izučítʹ",
      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "изучи́ть"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "рассма́тривать"
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      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
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      "code": "sk",
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      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "word": "preštudovať"
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    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "word": "preskúmať"
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    {
      "code": "es",
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      "word": "examinar"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to examine or consider with care",
      "word": "granska"
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    {
      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "to read completely",
      "word": "přečíst"
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    {
      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "to read completely",
      "word": "pročíst"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to read completely",
      "word": "lukea huolellisesti"
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    {
      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to read completely",
      "word": "durchlesen"
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    {
      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "meletó",
      "sense": "to read completely",
      "word": "μελετώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "to read completely",
      "word": "végigolvas"
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    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to read completely",
      "word": "lesa gaumgæfilega"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to read completely",
      "word": "lesa"
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    {
      "code": "io",
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      "sense": "to read completely",
      "word": "parkurar"
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    {
      "code": "io",
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      "sense": "to read completely",
      "word": "parlektar"
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      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "to read completely",
      "word": "aalhaih"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to read completely",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ler todo"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "pročítyvatʹ",
      "sense": "to read completely",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
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      "word": "прочи́тывать"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "pročitátʹ",
      "sense": "to read completely",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "прочита́ть"
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    {
      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "look over casually",
      "word": "prohlédnout"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "look over casually",
      "word": "přelétnout"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "look over casually",
      "word": "jeter un coup d’œil"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "look over casually",
      "word": "survoler"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "look over casually",
      "word": "feuilleter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "look over casually",
      "word": "überfliegen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "look over casually",
      "word": "átolvas"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "look over casually",
      "word": "átfut"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
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      "word": "áttekint"
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      "sense": "look over casually",
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      "code": "es",
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "look over casually",
      "word": "hojear"
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    {
      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "look over casually",
      "word": "leer por encima"
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    {
      "code": "es",
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      "word": "ver por encima"
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    {
      "code": "es",
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  "etymology_text": "From either Medieval Latin perūtor, perūsitō (“wear out”)) or Anglo-Norman peruser (“use up”)), originally leading to two concurrent meanings, but only those derived from \"to examine\" survive today. By surface analysis, per- + use.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "peruses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "peruse (plural peruses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 September 12, Dave Robson, “Hi-tea, low cost!”, in Evening Gazette",
          "text": "A peruse of the website looked promising […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An examination or perusal; an instance of perusing."
      ],
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        [
          "examination",
          "examination"
        ],
        [
          "perusal",
          "perusal"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pəˈɹuːz/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːz"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-peruse.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/30/En-us-peruse.ogg/En-us-peruse.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/En-us-peruse.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-peruse.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0f/En-au-peruse.ogg/En-au-peruse.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/En-au-peruse.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vnimatelno razgleždane",
      "word": "внимателно разглеждане"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Xì dú",
      "word": "细读"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Yándú",
      "word": "研读"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "word": "tutkimus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "word": "tarkastelu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "examen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "word": "áttekintés"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "word": "átolvasás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "word": "áttanulmányozás"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rassmotrenije",
      "word": "рассмотрение"
    }
  ],
  "word": "peruse"
}

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        "1": "la",
        "2": "participle form"
      },
      "expansion": "peruse",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin non-lemma forms",
        "Latin participle forms"
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      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "perusus"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "vocative masculine singular of perusus"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "perusus",
          "perusus#Latin"
        ]
      ],
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        "masculine",
        "participle",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "peruse"
}
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  "called_from": "page/2517",
  "msg": "UNIMPLEMENTED parse_translation_template: trans-top-see {1: 'perusal', 2: 'perusal'}",
  "path": [
    "peruse",
    "trans-top-see"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "peruse",
  "trace": ""
}

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