Meaning

4 senses

  1. (transitive)To examine or consider with care.

    studieren, genau unter die Lupe nehmen

    изуча́тьizučátʹ, изучи́тьizučítʹ, рассма́триватьrassmátrivatʹ

    examine or consider with attention and in detail

  2. (transitive)To read completely.

    durchlesen

    прочи́тыватьpročítyvatʹ, прочита́тьpročitátʹ

  3. (informal, transitive)To look over casually; to skim.

    überfliegen

    просма́триватьprosmátrivatʹ, просмотре́тьprosmotrétʹ

  4. (intransitive, regional)To go from place to place; to wander.

Examples

11 sentences

  1. Tom perused the menu.

    Том уважно вивчав меню. — lingvokrolik

    ruТом изучил меню. — marafon

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  2. He's perusing the classifieds in the newspaper.

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  3. Mary's wanderlust grew from regularly perusing travel magazines.

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  4. I didn't have time to peruse the article.

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  5. She perused a magazine while waiting for her date to show up.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
to examine or consider with care:
to read completely:
look over casually:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to examine or consider with care:
to read completely:
look over casually:

Origin

From either Medieval Latin perūtor, perūsitō (“wear out”) or Anglo-Norman peruser (“use up

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.

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Forms

peruses, perusing, perused, perused
Base formperuse · to peruse
3rd person singularperuses
Present participleperusing
Past simpleperused
Past participleperused

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyperuse
he, she, itperuses

Past simpleLesson

all personsperused

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave perused
he, she, ithas perused

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill peruse

Word family

7 related words
Relatedperusingperusal
Derivedperusableperusementperuserreperuseunperused

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
pertainpertinentC1perturbpervpervadepervasiveC2
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