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Peered

[peer]

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verb (used without object)

to look narrowly or searchingly, as in the effort to discern clearly.

to peep out or appear slightly.

to come into view.

Origin:
1585–95; perhaps aphetic variant of appear

Related forms

peer·ing·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. See peep¹.

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Example Sentences

Smith appeared dazed when led into the execution room, then peered into the witness room.

Szalay is a well-regarded astronomer, but he hasn't peered through a telescope in nearly a decade.

Bank bosses peered enviously at the profits and risk-taking prowess of the venerable investment bank.

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Smith appeared dazed when led into the execution room, then peered into the witness room.

Szalay is a well-regarded astronomer, but he hasn't peered through a telescope in nearly a decade.

Bank bosses peered enviously at the profits and risk-taking prowess of the venerable investment bank.

Others walked right up to the camera and peered into the lens.

Astronomers have peered billions of years back in time to make detailed maps of the early cosmos.

Spectators shared in the risk: at many motordromes, they peered down from the lip of the track, in harm's way.

If you ever peered closely at a drop of water, you'll know that it can produce a tiny version of the world beyond.

The sixth graders peered into a computer screen showing four cartoon couples dancing under floating balloons.

Researchers peered through windows and into back gardens in search of clues.

Finally, after weeks of careful digging, the scientists peered through the ancient dust.

Herschel has peered inside an unseen stellar nursery and revealed surprising amounts of activity.

Skinny boys and girls on the verge of adolescence peered warily into roadside shadows.

But he likely peered at the heavens through baby blues.

On the second floor, the agents peered at closed-circuit cameras and eavesdropped through microphones planted in the building.

Regulators also peered into managers' murky fee structures and their often cosy dealings with brokers who peddle their funds.

Bright eyes peered at me through a lattice of ferns.

Someone opened a small window in the door and peered at me through an iron grate.

More important, they've peered inside the brain as it functions.

We peered out the window, waiting for whatever was swelling out there to subside.

They dug a hole, peered into it, and shook their heads.

Maggs suddenly sat up and peered down through the branches.

Experts in consumer behavior have peered through the windows of hybrid cars for clues.

She walked to the edge of the stage and peered into the dark, near-empty auditorium.

Sitting on the other side of the lantern, blanketed by the dark night, an old lady peered at his face.

After a moment he spat the salad into his hand and peered at it.

Fall peered into his empty teacup as if reading the leaves.

She said she peered into the thick forest and saw huge coconut crabs.

The two cubs peered down nervously from their perch.

Gray-haired witnesses have, time after time, peered over.

Using a new laser technique, anthropologists peered into the.

The desk displayed career information for the elderly, and, as some older people peered curiously at the.

And as they sang they peered into holes and crevices in the sidewalk.

Antinarcotics commandos in three choppers peered at the mangroves below.

Those who peered through the big window saw a group of.

Some peered from the backs of camels, others through the fragrant smoke of hookahs.

He peered down at the water's surface and imagined the ancient ornamental beak.

He pried a manhole cover from the driveway and peered down.

His bright blue eyes peered out of his thin, tanned face.

Several squaws carried papooses strapped on their backs, and the little ones peered wonderingly at the.

The big-game hunter raised a stainless-steel rifle and peered through its scope.

Dreher said as he peered at the incoming signals, three tantalizing blips on his computer screen.

Broad and his shipmates peered out through tiny windows at a murky lava landscape:.

But we'd never slept near a pungent feedlot or peered into a manure lagoon or learned how to make silage.

When they peered inside, he said, they saw the children and two adults sitting in the dark.

All he could have made out as he peered nearsightedly at the tall young woman was her figure, her hair and her stride.

We both peered down the street as though our stares would cause the bus to materialize.

Marines peered grimly through layers of off- white grime at stomach-turning scenes.

For years, scientists have peered into the brain and sought to identify deception.

Barbour, a quiet woman with white hair, peered nervously toward the path leading to the cemetery gates.

She said she had been awakened by gunfire and peered out a window.

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Word Origin & History

peer

1590s, variant of piren (late 14c.), with a long -i-, probably related to or from E. Fris. piren "to look," of uncertain origin. Influenced in form and sense by M.E. peren (late 14c.), aphetic form of aperen (see appear).

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"We looked down at a glassy glittering icy place many days walking across and very deep, between enormous icy black peaks. All we looked at had a glassy awfulness that hurt into our dying eyes; and as we peered down over the edge of the miniature valley we were stranded in at the top of the mountain peak, we knew we would never leave it. How could we, weak as we were, descend the ghastly precipices of that peak? And so, for the last time with our old eyes, we sat close and looked into each other's faces, until, one after another, our faces shuttered themselves in death, and our bundles of bones settled inside the heaps of our shag-skin coats, so that, as we slid away from that scene, and saw it with eyes we had not known we possessed, all we could see was what looked like a herd of beasts crouched in sleep or in death high up there on a mountaintop."

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