leaf through

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uː

Verb

leaf through (third-person singular simple present leafs through, present participle leafing through, simple past and past participle leafed through)

1. (transitive) To turn the pages of (a book) idly, reading short sections at random.

Synonyms

• riffle
• browse
• scan
• skim

Translations

to turn the pages of (a book) idly, reading short sections at random

• Catalan: fullejar (ca)
• Czech: prolistovat pf
• Dutch: bladeren (nl), doorbladeren (nl)
• Esperanto: foliumi (eo)
• French: feuilleter (fr)
• German: durchblättern (de)
• Greek: φυλλομετρώ (el) (fyllometró)
• Italian: sfogliare (it)
• Polish: kartkować (pl)
• Portuguese: folhear (pt)
• Romanian: frunzări (ro)
• Russian: листа́ть (ru) impf (listátʹ), перели́стывать (ru) impf (perelístyvatʹ), перелиста́ть (ru) pf (perelistátʹ), проли́стывать (ru) impf (prolístyvatʹ), пролиста́ть (ru) pf (prolistátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: листати, прелиставати

  Roman: listati (sh), prelistavati (sh)

• Slovene: listati
• Spanish: hojear (es)
• Swedish: bläddra (sv) (i, igenom)
• Turkish: göz gezdirmek (tr), karıştırmak (tr)