browse

noun

/braʊz/

[singular]

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the act of looking at a lot of things in a shop rather than looking for one particular thing
- The gift shop is well worth a browse.
the act of looking through a book, newspaper, website, etc. without reading everything
- a cursory browse of the book's contents

verb

/braʊz/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they browse	/braʊz/ /braʊz/
he / she / it browses	/ˈbraʊzɪz/ /ˈbraʊzɪz/
past simple browsed	/braʊzd/ /braʊzd/
past participle browsed	/braʊzd/ /braʊzd/
-ing form browsing	/ˈbraʊzɪŋ/ /ˈbraʊzɪŋ/

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[intransitive, transitive] to look at a lot of things in a shop rather than looking for one particular thing
- You are welcome to come in and browse.
- browse something She browsed the shelves for something interesting to read.
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[intransitive, transitive] to look through a book, newspaper, website, etc. without reading everything
- I spent the whole evening just browsing on the internet.
- browse through something I found the article while I was browsing through some old magazines.
- to browse through the catalogue
- browse something I browsed the website for information about the event but didn’t find anything useful.
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[intransitive] browse (on something) (of cows, goats, etc.) to eat leaves, etc. that are growing high up

Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (4)): from Old French broster, from brost ‘young shoot’, probably of Germanic origin.