peruse
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pe·ruse
(pə-rūz') 
tr.v., -rused, -rus·ing, -rus·es.
To read or examine, typically with great care.
perusal pe·rus'al n.
peruser pe·rus'er n.
tr.v., -rused, -rus·ing, -rus·es.
To read or examine, typically with great care.
[Middle English perusen, to use up : Latin per-, per- + Middle English usen, to use; see use.]
perusable pe·rus'a·ble adj.perusal pe·rus'al n.
peruser pe·rus'er n.
USAGE NOTE Peruse has long meant "to read thoroughly" and is often used loosely when one could use the word read instead, as in The librarians checked to see which titles had been perused in the last month and which been left untouched. Seventy percent of the Usage Panel rejected this example in our 1999 survey. Sometimes people use it to mean "to glance over, skim," as in I only had a moment to peruse the manual quickly, but this usage is widely considered an error. In a 1988 survey, 66 percent of the Panel found it unacceptable, and in 1999, 58 percent still rejected it.
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is a formal word meaning 'to read thoroughly', and is often mistakenly used to mean 'to read cursorily, to glance over':
For me, it had all the wearisome unfunniness of back numbers of Punch perused in the dentist's waiting-room—Times Literary Supplement, 1980.
| persuasion, perspicacious, perspicuous, perspective | |
| perverse, pervert, perverted, petal, petite |
Roget's Thesaurus:
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peruse
verb
- To look at carefully or critically: check (out), con, examine, go over, inspect, scrutinize, study, survey, traverse, view. Informal case. Idioms: give a going-over. See investigate.
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Peruse
Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - gennemlæse, undersøge
Nederlands (Dutch)
(nauwkeurig) doorlezen/ bestuderen
Français (French)
v. tr. - passer en revue
Deutsch (German)
v. - genau durchlesen
Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - διαβάζω (προσεκτικά), μελετώ
Italiano (Italian)
esaminare, scrutare, studiare
Português (Portuguese)
v. - ler com atenção
Русский (Russian)
изучать, просматривать
Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - examinar, leer atentamente
Svenska (Swedish)
v. - ögna igenom (Am.), läsa noga (Br.)
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
熟读, 阅读, 精读
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 熟讀, 閱讀, 精讀
한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 정독하다, 읽다
العربيه (Arabic)
(فعل) يطالع كتابا, يقرأ بإمعان
עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - קרא בעיון, בחן (פנים וכו') בשימת-לב, קרא
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