(page through something) to turn the pages of a book, newspaper, or magazine quickly without reading or looking at it carefully. The usual British word is leaf through
She sat in the waitingroom, casuallypaging through glossymagazines.
Synonyms and related words
To read something quickly
glance
skim
flick through
page through
phrasal verb transitive
Word Forms
present tense
I/you/we/they
page through
he/she/it
pages through
present participle
paging through
past tense
paged through
past participle
paged through
DEFINITIONS1
1
(page through something) to turn the pages of a book, newspaper, or magazine quickly without reading or looking at it carefully
She sat in the waitingroom, casuallypaging through oldmagazines.