Englishread
verb
1 he sat reading the evening newspaper:
peruse, study, scrutinize, look through;
pore over, devour, be absorbed in, bury oneself in;
wade through, plow through;
run one's eye over, cast an eye over, leaf through, scan, glance through, flick through, skim through, thumb through, flip through, browse through, dip into;
archaic con.
2 “Listen to this,” he said and read a passage of the letter:
read out, read aloud, say aloud, recite, declaim.
3 I can't read my own writing:
decipher, make out, make sense of, interpret, understand, comprehend.
4 his remark could be read as a dig at Forsyth:
interpret, take, take to mean, construe, see, explain, understand.
6 I can't read your future, you know:
foresee, predict, forecast, foretell, prophesy, divine, prognosticate;
archaic augur, presage.
7 he went on to read modern history at Oxford:
study, do, take;
North American, & Australian, New Zealand major in.
□ read something into something□ read someone the riot act□ read up on□ take as read
they read me the riot act on fighting and grounded me:
reprimand, rebuke, scold, admonish, reprove, upbraid, chastise, chide, censure, castigate, lambaste, berate, lecture, criticize, take to task, give a piece of one's mind to, haul over the coals;
informal tell off, give someone a telling-off, dress down, give someone a dressing-down, bawl out, pitch into, lay into, lace into, blow up at, give someone an earful, give someone a roasting, give someone a rocket, give someone a rollicking;
British, informal have a go at, carpet, tear someone off a strip, give someone what for, let someone have it;
North American, informal chew out, ream out;
British, vulgar slang bollock, give someone a bollocking, tear someone a new arsehole, rip someone a new arsehole;
North American, vulgar slang chew someone's ass, ream someone's ass, tear someone a new asshole, rip someone a new asshole.
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