thumb throughsomething
phrasal verbwiththumbverbuk/θʌm/us/θʌm/
toturnthepagesof abook,magazine, or adocumentquicklyand onlyreadsmallpartsof it:
"Have youreadthereport?" "Well, Ithumbedthrough itquicklywhile I waseatingbreakfast."
Reading
- cross-refer
- deconstruct
- deconstruction
- dip intosomething
- dyslexic
- flick throughsomething
- leaf
- misread
- narrate
- nose
- pore oversomething
- putsomething/someonedown
- readsomeone'slipsidiom
- readsomethingout
- readsomethingover/through
- reader
- reading knowledge
- riffle
- scan
- semiotics