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glance over

glance over verb: to quickly inspect something (newspaper, notes) with the eyes.

Verb

glance over (third-person singular simple present glances over, present participle glancing over, simple past and past participle glanced over)

  1. (transitive) to quickly inspect something (newspaper, notes) with the eyes
    • "There are other people coming besides the Princess Ziska, are there not, Mr. Murray?" inquired Sir Chetwynd Lyle, with an obtrusively bantering air. Denzil Murray glanced him over disdainfully.1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, page 36
    • When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave.1891, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Five Orange Pips”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Forms of glance over

third-person singular presentglances over
present participleglancing over
past participleglanced over
pastglanced over

Questions about glance over

What does glance over mean?
Glance over means to quickly inspect something (newspaper, notes) with the eyes.
What part of speech is glance over?
Glance over is a verb.
What is the past tense of glance over?
The past tense of glance over is glanced over.

Words near glance over in the dictionary

  1. glance
  2. glance away
  3. glance coal
  4. glance coals
  5. glance off
  6. glance over
  7. glanceability
  8. glanceable
  9. glanced
  10. glanced away
  11. glanced off

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