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verb (used with object)
1.
to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
2.
to graze; pasture on.
3.
to look through or glance at casually: He's browsing the shelves for something to read.
verb (used without object)
4.
to feed on or nibble at foliage, lichen, berries, etc.
5.
to graze.
6.
to glance at random through a book, magazine, etc.
7.
to look leisurely at goods displayed for sale, as in a store.
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| to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable. |
| to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly. |
noun
8.
tender shoots or twigs of shrubs and trees as food for cattle, deer, etc.
9.
an act or instance of browsing.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English browsen, perhaps a verbal derivative of Anglo-French broz, plural of brot shoot, new growth, Old French brost < Old Low Franconian *brust bud, noun derivative of *brustjan; compare Old Saxon brustian to come into bud
1400–50; late Middle English browsen, perhaps a verbal derivative of Anglo-French broz, plural of brot shoot, new growth, Old French brost < Old Low Franconian *brust bud, noun derivative of *brustjan; compare Old Saxon brustian to come into bud
Related forms
brows·er, noun
non·brows·ing, adjective, noun
o·ver·browse, verb (used with object), -browsed, -brows·ing.
un·brows·ing, adjective
Synonyms
3. scan, skim, examine, peruse, check.
3. scan, skim, examine, peruse, check.
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Example Sentences
- Browse population growth and decline, changes in racial and ethnic concentrations and patterns of housing development.
- It not only tracks the books you purchase, but also keeps a record of the ones you browse but do.
- Browse through images from our online-exclusive photo gallery.
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Word Origin & History
browse
1523, "feed on buds," from M.Fr. brouster, from O.Fr. broster "to sprout, bud," from brost "young shoot, twig," probably from P.Gmc. *brustjan "to bud." Lost its final -t in Eng. on the mistaken notion that it was a pp. inflection. Figurative extension to "peruse" (books) is 1870s, Amer.Eng.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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