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peruse

pe·ruse

UK/pəˈɹuːz/ US/pɜrˈuz/ rare informal

verb

1.

examine or consider with attention and in detail

  • “Please peruse this report at your leisure”

Origin

From either Medieval Latin perūtor, perūsitō (“wear out”) or Anglo-Norman peruser (“use up”), originally leading to two concurrent meanings, but only those derived from "to examine" survive today. By surface analysis, per- + use.

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