Peruse

Definition: Peruse

Peruse

Verb

1. Examine or consider with attention and in detail; "Please peruse this report at your leisure".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "peruse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Peruse \Pe*ruse"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Perused; present participle verb or noun Perusing.]. (Websters 1913)

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Learning

Read, spell, peruse; con over, pore over, thumb over; wade through; dip into; run the eye over, run the eye through; turn over the leaves.

Crosswords: Peruse

Albanian

shqyrtoj (analyse, analyze, assay, bolt, call, canvass, case, check, check over, debate, discuss, explore, inspect, investigate, look into, look over, look through, moot, process, scrutinize, see, see into, study, talk over, think out, traverse, vet, view), lexoj me vëmendje (read very attentively), lexoj (read), kontrolloj (check, control, examine, go through, guard, inspect, look over, make certain, master, perambulate, probe, ransack, review, revise, search, superintend, supervise, take charge of, take stock, verify, watch). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قراء بتمعن, ‏قرأ بتمعن (scan), ‏تصفح (browse, laminate, look into, look over, page, read through, scan, skim, thumb, turn over). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разглеждам внимателно (inspect, scrutinize), чета (detachment, read), преглеждам внимателно (con, rake over, rake trough). (various references)

Chinese 

閱 (review, to read), 阅读 (Perused, Perusing). (various references)

Czech

prohlédnout (examine, go through, inspect, Miss, overlook, review, test, visit), proèíst. (various references)

Farsi 

بررسی کردن (Study, Survey), بدقت خواندن . (various references)

French

lire attentivement. (various references)

German

durchgehen (be allowed, be non-stop, be passed, be tolerated, bolt, check through, comb through, come through, cover, elope, go over, go through, pass through, run off, run through, sift, slip by, slip past, to peruse, walk through), prüfen (afflict, assay, attempt, audit, canvass, check, consider, examine, Gage, gauge, inspect, look at, look into, prove, proved, question, quiz, review, scrutinize, see into, study, test, to canvass, to examine, to peruse, to review, to test, to try, try, try out, validate, verify, verifying). (various references)

Greek 

μελετώ (con, consider, contemplate, deliberate, meditate, ponder, study), αναγιγνώσκω προσεκτικώσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

לקרוא בעיון, לעין (consider, look up, meditate, ponder, study, think over). (various references)

Hungarian

elolvas (read, to read, to read up a subject), átolvas (re-read, to go over, to look over, to peruse, to read through). (various references)

Italian

leggere attentamente, esaminare (check, examine, look for, look over, overhaul, question, scan, see, study, survey, test, verify, vet, view). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

披見 (read). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひけん (compare favourably with, hidden mysteries, my humble opinion, rank equal with, read, secret principle). (various references)

Manx

mynscrutaghey (analyse, analysis, dissect, dissection, narrow examination, perusal, scan, scansion, screen, scrutinize), lhaih dy currymagh, aalhaih (perusal, read over). (various references)

Pig Latin

erusepay

Portuguese

ler (call, read, to read), leitura cuidadosa, examinar (assay, canvass, catechize, check, check up on, cross, discussion, enquire, examine, explore, eye drops, go over, have out, inquire, inspect, look, look over, look through, overhaul, probe, question, quiz, run over, scan, test, traverse, turn out, verify, vet, view). (various references)

Romanian

examina cu grijã, citi pânã la capãt, citi cu atenţie. (various references)

Russian 

внимательно читать, внимательно прочитывать. (various references)

Scottish

leugh (read). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pregledati (audit, check, examine, go over, go through, inspect, look over, look through, overhaul, perlustrate, prospect, survey, view). (various references)

Spanish

leer atentamente, examinar detenidamente. (various references)

Swedish

läsa noggrant. (various references)

Turkish

okumak (announce, read, say, sing, study), incelemek (analyse, analyze, audit, check over, con, construe, dig, dig out, dissect, examine, examine into, go into, investigate, look into, look through, make a study of, observe, research, research into, scan, search, study, survey, twig, vet, view), dikkatle okumak (con), değerlendirmek (appraise, appreciate, comment, commentate, evaluate, form an estimate of, interpret, judge, parlay, reclaim, recover, recycle, salvage, score, seize on, seize upon, size up). (various references)

Ukranian 

уважно розглядати (search), уважно читати, міркувати (brood over, cogitate, contemplate, deliberate, descant, dwell, excogitate, meditate, pore, ratiocinate, reason, speculate). (various references)

per-. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "peruse": perused, peruser, perusers, peruses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Peruse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: parase, parsue, parue, paruse, payrise, Pedraza, peluse, perduci, Perdues, perdus, perisic, Perissa, Perowe, persa, perse, perseu, persu, persude, persue, persusah, persute, Pertsey, Peruke, Perus, Peruzzi, Peuser, pieuse, piruse, piruzeh, porpuse, porrus, Porush, preeze, preise, prepuse, presu, presue, preuse, preuss, Preussag, Preussen, preust, pruse, Prusse, puruse. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: purees, rupees.

-1 letter: peers, perse, prees, prese, puree, purse, reuse, rupee, speer, spree, sprue, super.

-2 letters: peer, pees, pree, pure, purs, rees, reps, rues, ruse, seep, seer, sere, spue, spur, suer, supe, sure, user.

-3 letters: ere, ers, pee, per, pes, pur, pus, ree, rep, res, rue, see, ser, sue, sup, ups, use.

-4 letters: er, es, pe, re.

+1 letter: perdues, perfuse, perukes, perused, peruser, peruses, presume, prevues, pugrees, repulse, reputes, supered, supreme.

+2 letters: cupelers, duperies, epicures, espouser, euphroes, exposure, penuries, perdures, perfumes, perfused, perfuses, periques, perjures, permutes, persuade, perusers, pleasure, precures, preludes, prepuces, prequels, pressure, presumed, presumer, presumes, pugarees, puggrees, pureness, reequips, repousse, repulsed, repulser, repulses, repursue, resupine, spherule, superber, superego, superjet, superlie, supermen, superset, supersex, supremer, unsphere, upsetter.

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