peruse

Meaning of peruse

verb
  1. read (something), typically in a thorough or careful way.
    he has spent countless hours in libraries perusing art history books and catalogues
    I perused several online reviews

late 15th century (in the sense ‘use up, wear out’): perhaps from per- ‘thoroughly’ + use, but compare with Anglo-Norman French peruser ‘examine’.

Information about peruse

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of peruse is: peruses.
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Hyphenation of peruse

pe-ruse

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • peruse is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of peruse

persue, purees, respue, rupees

Words that rhyme with peruse

Ruse, ruse, cruse, Druse, druse, ceruse, misperuse, overuse, preperuse, reperuse, underuse, Kruse, abstruse, abtruse, intruse, obstruse, retruse, struse

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