glance over

English

Verb

glance over

(transitive) to quickly inspect something (newspaper, notes) with the eyes
- 1891, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Five Orange Pips”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:
  When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave.

Translations

to quickly go through something with the eyes

Hungarian: átfut (hu), átlapoz (hu)

Anagrams

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