Word.ws English Dictionary

look-seeing

look-seeing is the present participle and gerund of look-see.

Meaning of look-see

Verb

look-see (third-person singular simple present look-sees, present participle look-seeing, simple past look-saw, past participle look-seen)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To make a quick inspection, especially as a lookout or scout.
    • I told Kola and he went down in the p.m. to look-see.2015, Zhang Kaiyuan, Donald MacInnis, Eyewitnesses to Massacre

See all 4 meanings of look-see

Questions about look-seeing

What is look-seeing the present participle and gerund of?
Look-seeing is the present participle and gerund of look-see.

Words near look-seeing in the dictionary

  1. look-out books
  2. look-outs
  3. look-saw
  4. look-say
  5. look-see
  6. look-seeing
  7. look-seen
  8. look-sees
  9. look-up
  10. look-ups
  11. lookability

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: look-seeing (page history and authors); look-see (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “look-seeing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/look-seeing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.