peered
past simple and past participle ofpeer
peer
verb[Iusually+ adv/prep]
uk/pɪər/us/pɪr/C2
tolookcarefullyor withdifficulty:
When no oneansweredthedoor, she peeredthroughthewindowtoseeif anyone was there.
Thedriverwas peering into thedistancetryingtoreadtheroadsign.
to look at someone or something
- lookLook over there! A rainbow!
- watchI sat by the window and watched people walking past.
- glanceShe glanced around the room to see who was there.
- peepShe peeped through the curtains to see what was happening.
- peekHe peeked inside the box.
- stareDon't stare at people like that - it's rude.
- I peered through achinkin thecurtainsandsawthem all inside.
- Theyleanedover therailsand peered down into thedizzyingchasmbelow.
- We peered through thecrackin thefloorboards.
- Thecarnosedout of thesidestreet,itsdriverpeeringanxiouslyaround.
- She peeredcloselyat themap.
Using the eyes
- accommodate
- accommodation
- all eyes are onsomeone/somethingidiom
- astigmatic
- beholder
- butcher
- corner
- fix
- gaze
- glare
- glass
- lookout
- perceive
- scope
- seesomethingwithyourown eyesidiom
- seeing is believingidiom
- shoot a glance atsomeoneidiom
- spot
- stand oversomeone
- tab
Examplesofpeered
peered
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The slatted roof kept the public from the rain, while eyes of eager schoolboyspeeredthrough the slated fence.
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Quite a few peoplepeeredinto her eyes.
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Hepeeredinto a couple of rooms and then finally saw a lone figure with his back to the door, hunched over a table.
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Hepeeredout of his curtains looking outside his house.
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Inquisitive and eager eyespeeredfrom every inch of space.
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A gunboat mentality haspeeredout through practically every sentence.
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Before they went to bed at night they must havepeeredunder the bed to see whether anyone was lurking there.
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Theypeeredover the barbed wire to see their land to the east empty with between three and six people per square kilometre.
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He was referring to one ugly face which hadpeeredround the corner of the capitalist system.
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I am on record as saying that, when the scare blew up in 1988, we immediately seized the wrong end of the telescope through which wepeeredat the problem.
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I was reminded of the actor whopeeredout from behind the stage curtains at the theatre and discovered that there were only two people present.
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Wepeeredover the top and the view was surreal.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They brought the bird before their emperor, whopeeredinto the mirror and saw warriors mounted on deer.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Observing that most jewelry in shop windows hepeeredinto followed the same styles and dimensions, he started his own firm in 1956.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Peoplepeeredfrom windows and rooftops for their first glimpse of this western army.
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