PORING OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poring over mean? 

• PORING OVER (noun)
  The noun PORING OVER has 1 sense:

1. reading carefully with intent to remember

  Familiarity information: PORING OVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORING OVER (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 ("poring over" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

I have many pamphlets to finish, said he to Catherine, before I can close my eyes, and perhaps may be poring over the affairs of the nation for hours after you are asleep.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Van Helsing sits in my study poring over the record prepared by the Harkers; he seems to think that by accurate knowledge of all details he will light upon some clue.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The bitter check had wrung from me some tears; and now, as I sat poring over the crabbed characters and flourishing tropes of an Indian scribe, my eyes filled again.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"I'm sure I am," echoed Amy, poring over the engraved copy of the Madonna and Child, which her mother had given her in a pretty frame.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"He will sit poring over his book, and not know when a person speaks to him, or when one drops one's scissors, or anything that happens. Do you think Lady Russell would like that?"

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I made several attempts to get out of their way—such as standing on a chair to look at a map on the other side of the room, and poring over the columns of a Kentish newspaper—but they always attracted me back again; and whenever I looked towards those two red suns, I was sure to find them, either just rising or just setting.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Therefore I resolved to keep myself as much out of their way as I could; and many a wintry hour did I hear the church clock strike, when I was sitting in my cheerless bedroom, wrapped in my little great-coat, poring over a book.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)