SEE THROUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does see through mean? 

• SEE THROUGH (verb)
  The verb SEE THROUGH has 3 senses:

1. support financially through a period of time

2. perceive the true nature of

3. remain with until completion

  Familiarity information: SEE THROUGH used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEE THROUGH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Support financially through a period of time

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

This money will see me through next month

Hypernyms (to "see through" is one way to...):

support (support materially or financially)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Perceive the true nature of

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

We could see through her apparent calm

Hypernyms (to "see through" is one way to...):

comprehend; perceive (to become aware of through the senses)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Remain with until completion

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

I must see the job through

Hypernyms (to "see through" is one way to...):

complete; finish (come or bring to a finish or an end)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Oh, we see through you, John Silver; you want to play booty, that's what's wrong with you.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The pupils may be dilated (enlarged) with medicated eye drops so the doctor can see through the pupil to the back of the eye.

(Fundoscopy, NCI Dictionary)

He was very much moved, and shut himself up in the study all day, where I could see through the window that he was writing busily.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had to take some of our provisions, too, for we were in a perfect desolation, and, so far as we could see through the snowfall, there was not even the sign of habitation.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I closed my eyes, but could still see through my eyelids. (It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.) The mist grew thicker and thicker and I could see now how it came in, for I could see it like smoke—or with the white energy of boiling water—pouring in, not through the window, but through the joinings of the door.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)