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leafing through

leafing through is the present participle and gerund of leaf through.

Meaning of leaf through

Verb

leaf through (third-person singular simple present leafs through, present participle leafing through, simple past and past participle leafed through)

  1. (transitive) To turn the pages of (a book) idly, reading short sections at random.
    Synonyms:
    riffle, browse, scan, skim

Questions about leafing through

What is leafing through the present participle and gerund of?
Leafing through is the present participle and gerund of leaf through.

Words near leafing through in the dictionary

  1. leafily
  2. leafiness
  3. leafinesses
  4. leafing
  5. leafing out
  6. leafing through
  7. leafings
  8. leafit
  9. leafits
  10. Leafland
  11. leafless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leafing through (page history and authors); leaf through (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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