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Definition: Perusing |
PerusingNoun1. Reading carefully with intent to remember. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "perusing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Synonyms: PerusingSynonyms: perusal (n), poring over (n), studying (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Perusing |
| Specialty definitions using "perusing": Author. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "perusing": Peruse. (references) |
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| "Bright red Whatchamajiga" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "I was perusing the rusty odds and ends in my father's old shed, and came accross this." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Perusing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Perusing" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "perusing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 阅读 (Peruse, Perused). (various references) | |
German | prüfend (canvassing, checking, scrutinizing, searching, searchingly, shrewd, testing), durchgehend (constant, continuous, direct, non-stop, passing, right through, round the clock, through, throughout, thru). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erusingpay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Perusing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: oerusing, parasing, pedrossian, perfusing, Persigny, persuing, pertussin, Perussina, Peruzzi, Petruson, Pierquin, Preussag, purusing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "perusing" (pronounced peruw"zing) |
| 4 | -uw" z i ng | abusing, accusing, amusing, boozing, bruising, choosing, confusing, cruising, defusing, diffusing, excusing, fusing, infusing, losing, misusing, musing, oozing, overusing, recusing, refusing, reusing, schmoozing, snoozing, using. |
| 3 | -z i ng | antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, appraising, arising, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, analyzing, arousing, authorizing, blazing, bowsing, browsing, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, criminalizing, criticizing, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, praising, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, reimposing, reorganizing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: supering. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-p-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: pingers, purines, pursing, repugns, reusing, springe, uprisen. | |
-2 letters: genips, genius, gripes, insure, inures, pignus, pinger, prunes, puisne, punier, purges, purine, purins, regius, reigns, renigs, repins, repugn, resign, ripens, rusine, sering, signer, singer, sniper, spring, sprung, spuing, spurge, supine, unpegs, unrigs, unripe, unrips, uprise, urines, ursine. | |
-3 letters: genip, genus, girns, grins, gripe, grips, grues. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-p-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: impugners, perfusing, presuming, repulsing. | |
+2 letters: grumpiness, percussing, perigynous, persuading, pleasuring, pressuring, repursuing, scuppering, sputtering, supergiant, superlying, unsphering. | |
+3 letters: guttersnipe, outpressing, oversupping, persecuting, prefocusing, presumingly, prosecuting, pulverising, resculpting, resprouting, resupplying, sepulchring, serpiginous, spluttering, springhouse, superadding, superceding, supergiants, superhyping, superposing, superseding, supersinger, superstring, supervening, supervising, suppressing, uppercasing, uprightness. | |
+4 letters: expurgations, grumpinesses, guttersnipes, outspreading, pasteurising, pasteurizing, pelargoniums, prefocussing, premeasuring, pressurising, pressurizing, presupposing, republishing, repugnancies, repurchasing, sepulchering, spermagonium, springhouses, supercoiling, supercooling, superheating, superorganic, supersingers, superstrings, unstoppering, upholstering. | |
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