Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to peruse
Participle: perused
Gerund: perusing
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | peruse |
| you | peruse |
| he;she;it | peruses |
| we | peruse |
| you | peruse |
| they | peruse |
Perfect
| I | have perused |
| you | have perused |
| he;she;it | has perused |
| we | have perused |
| you | have perused |
| they | have perused |
Past
| I | perused |
| you | perused |
| he;she;it | perused |
| we | perused |
| you | perused |
| they | perused |
Pluperfect
| I | had perused |
| you | had perused |
| he;she;it | had perused |
| we | had perused |
| you | had perused |
| they | had perused |
Future
| I | will peruse |
| you | will peruse |
| he;she;it | will peruse |
| we | will peruse |
| you | will peruse |
| they | will peruse |
Future Perfect
| I | will have perused |
| you | will have perused |
| he;she;it | will have perused |
| we | will have perused |
| you | will have perused |
| they | will have perused |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | peruse |
| you | peruse |
| he;she;it | peruse |
| we | peruse |
| you | peruse |
| they | peruse |
Perfect
| I | have perused |
| you | have perused |
| he;she;it | have perused |
| we | have perused |
| you | have perused |
| they | have perused |
Imperfect
| I | perused |
| you | perused |
| he;she;it | perused |
| we | perused |
| you | perused |
| they | perused |
Pluperfect
| I | had perused |
| you | had perused |
| he;she;it | had perused |
| we | had perused |
| you | had perused |
| they | had perused |
Conditional
Present
| I | would peruse |
| you | would peruse |
| he;she;it | would peruse |
| we | would peruse |
| you | would peruse |
| they | would peruse |
Perfect
| I | would have perused |
| you | would have perused |
| he;she;it | would have perused |
| we | would have perused |
| you | would have perused |
| they | would have perused |
Imperative
| you | peruse |
| we | Let's peruse |
| you | peruse |
Verbs conjugated like 'peruse'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'peruse'
perfuse,
peruke,
bemuse,
defuse,
erase,
ferule,
herse,
menuse,
overuse,
parse,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From either Medieval Latin perūtor, perūsitō (“wear out”) or Anglo-Norman peruser (“use up”), originally leading to two concurrent meanings, but only those derived from "to examine" survive today. By surface analysis, per- + use. See: Anglo-Norman '
peruser'.
Sample Sentences
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Sitting on a low stool, a few yards from her arm-chair, I examined her figure; I perused her features. [1847, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter IV, in Jane Eyre, volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 58:]
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This survey may be made by perusing al Books and taking notice of all Mechanicall Inventions. [1647, William Petty, The Advice to Hartlib:]
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We are for reasons that, after perusing this manuscript, you may be able to guess, going away again this time to Central Asia […] [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
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Not every German who bought a copy of Mein Kampf necessarily read it. […]But it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it before 1933 and had the foreign statesmen of the world perused it carefully while there still was time, both Germany and the world might have been saved from catastrophe. [1960, William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Simon & Schuster, page 81:]
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Haynes quickly perused the message, then took it to the captain on the bridge. [2001, Doug Stanton, In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis, →ISBN, page 35:]
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She asked Denise for the court file, which she fussed from her handbag. The woman perused it briefly and then beamed up at me. [2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex, →ISBN, page 98:]
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“I’m looking at the headlines and perusing around on the internet and I see that this guy came to your show and he brought a friendship bracelet and wants to meet you,” Swift’s mom said in the documentary. [2026 July 4, Brittany Spanos, “Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce marry at New York City’s Madison Square Garden”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
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I loved to straggle off in the mornings […], just perusing around for firewood. [1957, Robert Ruark, The Old Man And The Boy, →ISBN, page 55:]