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read

verb

1 he sat reading the evening newspaper:

peruse, study, scrutinize, look through;

pore over, devour, be absorbed in, bury oneself in;

wade through, plough 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.

5 the thermometer read 0°C:

indicate, register, record, display, show, have as a reading, measure.

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

officials cautioned against reading too much into the statistics:

infer from, interpolate from, assume from, attribute to;

read between the lines, get hold of the wrong end of the stick.

□ read someone the riot act

they read me the riot act on fighting and grounded me:

reprimand, rebuke, scold, admonish, reprove, upbraid, chastise, chide, censure, castigate, lambast, 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.

□ read up on

Chris had read up on this particular method of teaching children to write:

study, get up;

informal bone up on;

British, informal mug up on, swot;

archaic con.

□ take as read

it is taken as read that our products must be good:

presuppose, take for granted, presume, assume, take it, suppose, surmise, think, accept, consider, postulate, posit.

noun

I settled down for a read of ‘The Irish Press’:

perusal, study, scan, scrutiny;

look (at), browse (through), glance (through), leaf (through), flick (through), skim (through).

word links	read
legible readable illegible unreadable literacy ability to read illiteracy inability to read

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