"look through" meaning in English

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      "form": "looks through",
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    },
    {
      "form": "looking through",
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        "participle",
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    {
      "form": "looked through",
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      "form": "looked through",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He looked through the binoculars at the bird."
        }
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, through."
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        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 32 10",
          "word": "go through"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 32 10",
          "word": "read through"
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          "word": "through"
        }
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    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I looked through the magazine, but it didn't seem very interesting."
        },
        {
          "text": "Airport security looked through her purse and confiscated her nail scissors."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take a view of the contents of; search in, either with the eyes or by hand."
      ],
      "id": "en-look_through-en-verb-cuDoCSuk",
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        [
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          "view"
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        [
          "search",
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    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1829, Richard Holcraft, Tales of Humour and Romance: Selected from Popular German Writers",
          "text": "I got a small ring to make; when I brought back the finished trinket to him he stared at me with his sparkling eyes, as if he would look through my very soul, and then said: 'Thou art a clever expert fellow […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1832, The Christian Offering, page 205",
          "text": "But a man should have serious consideration enough to look through this deception.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Mary Young, Through Love's Eyes, page 3",
          "text": "The village women were bad enough, but this man looked through me, past all the walls I had built to protect myself from pain. I do not think I could have hidden anything from him, even with a lifetime's practice of hiding what I felt.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To penetrate with the understanding; to see through."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, archaic) To penetrate with the understanding; to see through."
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I tried to get Michele's attention at the party, but she looked right through me!"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To appear or pretend not to see something or someone who is clearly visible."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, often with \"right\") To appear or pretend not to see something or someone who is clearly visible."
      ],
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        "with \"right\""
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  "word": "look through"
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    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (through)",
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "looks through",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
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        "participle",
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    },
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      "form": "looked through",
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      "form": "looked through",
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    {
      "word": "go through"
    },
    {
      "word": "read through"
    },
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    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He looked through the binoculars at the bird."
        }
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, through."
      ],
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          "through",
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    {
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        {
          "text": "I looked through the magazine, but it didn't seem very interesting."
        },
        {
          "text": "Airport security looked through her purse and confiscated her nail scissors."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take a view of the contents of; search in, either with the eyes or by hand."
      ],
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        [
          "take",
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          "view",
          "view"
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          "search",
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          "ref": "1829, Richard Holcraft, Tales of Humour and Romance: Selected from Popular German Writers",
          "text": "I got a small ring to make; when I brought back the finished trinket to him he stared at me with his sparkling eyes, as if he would look through my very soul, and then said: 'Thou art a clever expert fellow […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1832, The Christian Offering, page 205",
          "text": "But a man should have serious consideration enough to look through this deception.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Mary Young, Through Love's Eyes, page 3",
          "text": "The village women were bad enough, but this man looked through me, past all the walls I had built to protect myself from pain. I do not think I could have hidden anything from him, even with a lifetime's practice of hiding what I felt.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To penetrate with the understanding; to see through."
      ],
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          "see through",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, archaic) To penetrate with the understanding; to see through."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I tried to get Michele's attention at the party, but she looked right through me!"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To appear or pretend not to see something or someone who is clearly visible."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic, often with \"right\") To appear or pretend not to see something or someone who is clearly visible."
      ],
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        "with \"right\""
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        "idiomatic",
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