Perusing can be categorized as a verb.
Verb |
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| peruse - examine or consider with attention and in detail; "Please peruse this report at your leisure" | ||
Noun |
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| perusing - reading carefully with intent to remember |
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| 1. | verb | In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own. | |
| 2. | verb | Mary's wanderlust grew from regularly perusing travel magazines. | |
| 3. | verb | Please peruse this report at your leisure. | |
| 4. | verb | The reader will doubtless take up this little work with an incredulous smile, supposing that he is about to peruse the impracticable schemes of some good citizen of Utopia. I would, therefore, in the first place, beg of him to lay aside all prejudice, and treat seriously and critically the question brought before him. | |
| 5. | verb | The reader will doubtless take up this little work with an incredulous smile, supposing that he is about to peruse the impracticable schemes of some good citizen of Utopia. I would, therefore, in the first place, beg of him to lay aside all prejudice, and treat seriously and critically the question brought before him. |
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| In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own. | |
| Mary's wanderlust grew from regularly perusing travel magazines. | |
| Please peruse this report at your leisure. |
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| The reader will doubtless take up this little work with an incredulous smile, supposing that he is about to peruse the impracticable schemes of some good citizen of Utopia. I would, therefore, in the first place, beg of him to lay aside all prejudice, and treat seriously and critically the question brought before him. | |
| The reader will doubtless take up this little work with an incredulous smile, supposing that he is about to peruse the impracticable schemes of some good citizen of Utopia. I would, therefore, in the first place, beg of him to lay aside all prejudice, and treat seriously and critically the question brought before him. | |