peruse
verb (used with object)
to read through with thoroughness or care.
reperuse
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a word derived from
peruse.
Example Sentences
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Though written in his own hand, and undoubtedly a memorandum of his own activities, he evidently thinks it worth while to reperuse them in connection with those he had just laid aside.
From The Golden Slipper : and other problems for Violet Strange by Anna Katharine Green
Her entrance was hurried, as if she had but just glanced over the letter, and had been eager to escape from the crowd of attendants to reperuse it alone.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 by Various
My manuscripts were returned, with this quiet bit of advice:—'Before "X.Y.Z." institutes any other reforms, we would advise him to reperuse his English Grammar.'
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
I will reperuse what thy advocate has to say for thee.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Samuel Richardson
And, on the other hand, how many do we continue to peruse and reperuse with pleasure whose only merit is the elegance of texture?
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
