thumb through sth
— phrasal verb with thumb uk/θʌm/us/θʌm/verb
to turn the pages of a book, magazine, or a document quickly and only read small parts of it:
"Have you read the report?" "Well, I thumbed through it quickly while I was eating breakfast."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Reading
- cross-reference
- deconstruct
- deconstruction
- devour
- dyslexia
- flip
- hermeneutic
- leaf through sth
- read sth over/through
- readable
- reader
- readership
- reading
- reading knowledge
- reference
- riffle
- run your eye over sth idiom
- semiotics
- skim
- thumb
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