Meaning & use
peruse
To read something thoroughly and carefully, or, informally, to look through it casually.
See it in a sentence
She perused the entire contract carefully before signing anything at all.
He liked to peruse the secondhand bookshop whenever he had a free afternoon.
A note on using this word
Traditionally "peruse" means to read carefully, but it is now also used to mean browsing casually.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
skim
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