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insaw

insaw is the simple past of insee.

Meaning of insee

Verb

insee (third-person singular simple present insees, present participle inseeing, simple past insaw, past participle inseen)

  1. To see into; to observe acutely.
    • First, moving from his internal region outwards to other internal regions, the speaker insees the "tear inside the stone."1992, Victoria Harris, The incorporative consciousness of Robert Bly
  2. To have or gain insight into; to empathise with or come to fully understand one's point of view.
    • This process of intuitional knowledge is strikingly analogous to the process of inseeing (Einsehen) Rilke described in his letters. I love inseeing. Can you imagine with me how glorious it is to insee...1990, Sandra Gilbert, Acts of attention: the poems of D.H. Lawrence
  3. To inspect.

Questions about insaw

What is insaw the simple past of?
Insaw is the simple past of insee.

Words near insaw in the dictionary

  1. insatiateness
  2. insatiety
  3. insatisfaction
  4. insatisfactions
  5. insaturable
  6. insaw
  7. inscape
  8. inscapes
  9. Insch
  10. inscience
  11. inscient

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