leaf through sth
— phrasal verb with leaf uk/liːf/us/liːf/verb
to quickly turn the pages of a book or a magazine, reading only a little of it:
The waiting room was full of people leafing through magazines.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Reading
- cross-reference
- deconstruct
- deconstruction
- devour
- dyslexia
- flip
- hermeneutic
- read sth over/through
- readable
- reader
- readership
- reading
- reading knowledge
- reference
- riffle
- run your eye over sth idiom
- semiotics
- skim
- thumb
- thumb through sth
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