"read over" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "reads over",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "reading over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "read over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "read over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "reads over",
        "2": "reading over",
        "3": "read over",
        "4": "read over"
      },
      "expansion": "read over (third-person singular simple present reads over, present participle reading over, simple past and past participle read over)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [
            "Links with manual fragments",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "48 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To read (a document, book, etc.) through, though not necessarily thoroughly."
      ],
      "id": "en-read_over-en-verb-NkTeUHm4",
      "links": [
        [
          "thoroughly",
          "thoroughly"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "48 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "43 57",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"over\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 66",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1866, William P. Nimmo, Nimmo's Popular Tales, volume 3, page 252:",
          "text": "[H]e read over the changeling the following spell: Receive, O earth! O virgin earth!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 121:",
          "text": "\"He could read over and cure all sorts of ailments and sprains, stop bleeding, melt lead, and tell of stolen goods; and to tell the truth, he knew also a little about witchcraft, and could afflict people with evil.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In superstitious belief, to read from the Bible out loud physically over something so as to confer some magical relief or power."
      ],
      "id": "en-read_over-en-verb-oGhIQdno"
    }
  ],
  "word": "read over"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"over\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "reads over",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "reading over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "read over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "read over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "reads over",
        "2": "reading over",
        "3": "read over",
        "4": "read over"
      },
      "expansion": "read over (third-person singular simple present reads over, present participle reading over, simple past and past participle read over)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English links with manual fragments"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To read (a document, book, etc.) through, though not necessarily thoroughly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "thoroughly",
          "thoroughly"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1866, William P. Nimmo, Nimmo's Popular Tales, volume 3, page 252:",
          "text": "[H]e read over the changeling the following spell: Receive, O earth! O virgin earth!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 121:",
          "text": "\"He could read over and cure all sorts of ailments and sprains, stop bleeding, melt lead, and tell of stolen goods; and to tell the truth, he knew also a little about witchcraft, and could afflict people with evil.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In superstitious belief, to read from the Bible out loud physically over something so as to confer some magical relief or power."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "read over"
}