look through

phrasal

1.

a. : to direct one's gaze through (as an opening or a transparent substance)

we looked through the window

the child looked through the screen door

b. : to see through

he looks quite through the deeds of men — Shakespeare

c. : to gaze at as if through empty space : ignore haughtily or insolently

the two Chinese spokesmen looked … through the correspondents they once knew — Peggy Durdin

2. : to gaze over the whole of

if one looks … through Russian history — Bernard Pares

especially : to examine cursorily usually from beginning to end

the press service … looked through its files — Bruce Bliven b. 1889

they read or looked through a … number of weekly journals — M.K.Adler

3. obsolete : to be visible through

that our drift look through our bad performance — Shakespeare

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look through [phrasal verb]

1 look through (something)

1 a : to read or briefly examine some of the pages of (a book, magazine, etc.)

She was looking [=leafing] through a magazine as she waited in the doctor's office.

look through the pages of a magazine

1 b : to look at the different parts of (a collection or group of things)

I looked through [=went through] all his letters.

2 look through (someone) : to pretend not to see or recognize (someone) in a rude or unfriendly way

We used to be best friends but when she passed me on the street yesterday she looked (right/straight) through me without even saying hello!

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