Word Meanings - PERUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To observe; to examine with care. Myself I then perused, and limb by limb Surveyed. Milton. 2. To read through; to read carefully. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERUSE)

• Read
• Peruse
• interpret
• decipher
• unravel
• discover
• recognize
• learn

Related words: (words related to PERUSE)

• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• INTERPRETABLE
  Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• DECIPHERMENT
  The act of deciphering.
• DISCOVERABLE
  Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
• INTERPRETATIVELY
  By interpretation. Ray.
• DISCOVERY
  1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next
• INTERPRETIVE
  Interpretative.
• DISCOVERER
  1. One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A scout; an explorer. Shak.
• UNRAVELMENT
  The act of unraveling, or the state of being unraveled.
• RECOGNIZER
  One who recognizes; a recognizor.
• DISCOVERT
  Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.
• UNRAVEL
  1. To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking. 2. Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot. 3. To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into
• DISCOVERY DAY
  = Columbus Day, above.
• LEARNER
  One who learns; a scholar.
• LEARNED
  Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. The learnedlover lost no time. Spenser. Men of
• INTERPRETATIVE
  1. Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory. "Interpretative lexicography." Johnson. 2. According to interpretation; constructive. An interpretative siding with heresies. Hammond.
• DISCOVERMENT
  Discovery.
• DISCOVER
  descovrir, descouvrir, F. découvrir; des- + couvrir to 1. To uncover. Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church. Abp. Grindal. 2. To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show . Go, draw
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• MISINTERPRETER
  One who interprets erroneously.
• INDECIPHERABLE
  Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved. -- In`de*ci"pher*a*bly, adv.
• INDISCOVERY
  Want of discovery.
• UNLEARN
  1. To forget, as what has been learned; to lose from memory; also, to learn the contrary of. I had learned nothing right; I had to unlearn everything. Milner. 2. To fail to learn. Dr. H. More.
• UNLEARNED
  1. Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate. 2. Not gained by study; not known. 3. Not exhibiting learning; as, unlearned verses. -- Un*learn"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*learn"ed*ness, n.