PERUSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perusing mean? 

• PERUSING (noun)
  The noun PERUSING has 1 sense:

1. reading carefully with intent to remember

  Familiarity information: PERUSING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERUSING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reading carefully with intent to remember

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

perusal; perusing; poring over; studying

Hypernyms ("perusing" is a kind of...):

reading (the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message)

Derivation:

peruse (examine or consider with attention and in detail)

 Context examples 

After perusing it, I taxed Miss Spenlow with having many such letters in her possession; and ultimately obtained from her the packet which is now in David Copperfield's hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was engaged one day as she walked, in perusing Jane's last letter, and dwelling on some passages which proved that Jane had not written in spirits, when, instead of being again surprised by Mr. Darcy, she saw on looking up that Colonel Fitzwilliam was meeting her.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He sat placidly perusing the newspaper, with his little head on one side, and a glass of warm sherry negus at his elbow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Years have elapsed, since I had an opportunity of ocularly perusing the lineaments, now familiar to the imaginations of a considerable portion of the civilized world.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)