1. phrasal verbIf you look through a group of things, you examine each one so that you can find or choose the one that you want.
Peter starts looking through the mail as soon as the door shuts. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
2. phrasal verbIf you look through something that has been written or printed, you read it.
He happened to be looking through the medical book 'Gray's Anatomy' at the time. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
3. phrasal verbIf you say that someone looks through another person, you mean that they look at that person without seeming to see them or recognize them, for example because they are angry with them or are thinking deeply about something else.
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