glance over

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glance over

verb glances over · glancing over · glanced over

transitive to quickly inspect something (newspaper, notes) with the eyes "There are other people coming besides the Princess Ziska, are there not, Mr. Murray?" inquired Sir Chetwynd Lyle, with an obtrusively bantering air. Denzil Murray glanced him over disdainfully.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see glance, over. He glanced over (at her).

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@misc{glance_over_2026,
  title = {glance over},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/glance%20over},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}