glance over

English

Verb

glance over (third-person singular simple present glances over, present participle glancing over, simple past and past participle glanced over)

1. (transitive) to quickly inspect something (newspaper, notes) with the eyes
   • 1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, page 36:

     "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.

   • 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

• overglance