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looks in on

looks in on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of look in on.

Meaning of look in on

Verb

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

  1. To check that (someone or something) is okay or that a process is continuing appropriately; to check up on; to monitor (someone) through brief, often surreptitious checks.
    • Atticus would flee to his office directly after dinner, where if we sometimes looked in on him, we would find him sitting back in his swivel chair reading.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

Questions about looks in on

What is looks in on the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Looks in on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of look in on.

Words near looks in on in the dictionary

  1. looks for a dog to kick
  2. looks for number one
  3. looks for trouble
  4. looks forward to
  5. looks in
  6. looks in on
  7. looks in the face
  8. looks into
  9. looks it
  10. looks like
  11. looks like a bomb has hit it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: looks in on (page history and authors); look in on (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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