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look round

look round verb: to inspect a building or area.

Verb

look round (third-person singular simple present looks round, present participle looking round, simple past and past participle looked round)

  1. (idiomatic) To inspect a building or area.
    • We're interested in buying this house, can we look round tomorrow?
    • He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  2. (idiomatic) To search a place.
    • I can't find my keys, so I'll look round.
  3. (idiomatic, intransitive) To turn one's head to see what is behind oneself.
    • He heard a voice and looked round to see a man wearing dark clothes.

look round meaning in Kannada

look round in Kannada

ಪೂರ್ವಾಪರ ಆಲೋಚಿಸು, ಪರಿಶೀಲಿಸು, ವಿವೇಚಿಸು, ಹಿಂದುಮುಂದು ಯೋಚಿಸು, ಹುಡುಕು

Forms of look round

third-person singular presentlooks round
present participlelooking round
past participlelooked round
pastlooked round
alternative formlook around

Questions about look round

What does look round mean?
Look round means to inspect a building or area.
What is look round in Kannada?
Look round in Kannada is ಪೂರ್ವಾಪರ ಆಲೋಚಿಸು, ಪರಿಶೀಲಿಸು, ವಿವೇಚಿಸು. See Look round meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is look round?
Look round is a verb.
What is the past tense of look round?
The past tense of look round is looked round.

Words near look round in the dictionary

  1. look over one's shoulder
  2. look past
  3. look past the end of one's nose
  4. look past the tip of one's nose
  5. look right through
  6. look round
  7. look sharp
  8. look shy
  9. look snappy
  10. look the other way
  11. look the part

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Adapted from Wiktionary: look round (page history and authors); look round (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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