weigh sb/sth up
— phrasal verb with weigh uk/weɪ/us/weɪ/verb
to form an opinion about someone's abilities and character or a situation by thinking about him, her, or it carefully:
I weighed up my chances of escape, and decided to wait for a better moment.
When you're a detective you learn to weigh people up quickly.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Analysing and evaluating
- analyse
- analyser
- analyst
- analytical
- analyze
- critical
- go through sth
- have the measure of sb/sth idiom
- inspect
- inspection
- interpretive
- measure
- proof
- sell sb/yourself/sth short idiom
- set great, little, etc. store by sth idiom
- sift
- sit
- sit in judgment on/over sb idiom
- size sth/sb up
- survey
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