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thumbing through

thumbing through is the present participle and gerund 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 thumbing through

What is thumbing through the present participle and gerund of?
Thumbing through is the present participle and gerund of thumb through.

Words near thumbing through in the dictionary

  1. thumbikins
  2. thumbing
  3. thumbing a ride
  4. thumbing down
  5. thumbing one's nose
  6. thumbing through
  7. thumbings
  8. thumbkin
  9. thumbkins
  10. thumbless
  11. thumbless wave

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thumbing 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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