peruse

Plural: peruses

Verb

Verb Forms: perused, perusing, peruses

To read or examine something in a careful or leisurely way.
examine or consider with attention and in detail
- "Please peruse this report at your leisure"
To examine or consider with care.
To read completely.
To look over casually; to skim.
To go from place to place; to wander.

Noun

An examination or perusal; an instance of perusing.

Examples

He would PERUSE the board for minutes, calculating every possible move.

Origin / Etymology

From either Medieval Latin perūtor, perūsitō (“wear out”)) or Anglo-Norman peruser (“use up”)), originally leading to two concurrent meanings, but only those derived from "to examine" survive today. By surface analysis, per- + use.

Scrabble Score: 8

peruse: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
peruse: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
peruse: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

peruse: valid Words With Friends Word