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thumbed through

thumbed through is the simple past and past participle of thumb through.

Meaning of thumb through

Verb

thumb through (third-person singular simple present thumbs through, present participle thumbing through, simple past and past participle thumbed through)

  1. (transitive) To use one's thumb to quickly flip through the pages of a book, magazine, etc., especially without reading them thoroughly or at all.

Questions about thumbed through

What is thumbed through the simple past and past participle of?
Thumbed through is the simple past and past participle of thumb through.

Words near thumbed through in the dictionary

  1. thumbboards
  2. thumbed
  3. thumbed a ride
  4. thumbed down
  5. thumbed one's nose
  6. thumbed through
  7. Thumbelina
  8. Thumbelinas
  9. thumber
  10. thumbers
  11. thumbhole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thumbed through (page history and authors); thumb 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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