look sth up
— phrasal verb with look uk/lʊk/us/lʊk/verb
B1 to try to find a piece of information by looking in a book or on a computer:
If you don't know what the word means, look it up in a dictionary.
More examples
- How can you look the word up if you don't know how to spell it?
- The software looks up words automatically.
- Does anybody look up slang words in the dictionary?
- I had to look up the word 'possession' to check how to spell it.
- You could try looking him up in a dictionary of biography.
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
- skim
- thumb
- thumb through sth
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