browse
verb/braʊz/
/braʊz/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they browse | /braʊz/ /braʊz/ |
| he / she / it browses | /ˈbraʊzɪz/ /ˈbraʊzɪz/ |
| past simple browsed | /braʊzd/ /braʊzd/ |
| past participle browsed | /braʊzd/ /braʊzd/ |
| -ing form browsing | /ˈbraʊzɪŋ/ /ˈbraʊzɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to look at a lot of things in a shop rather than looking for one particular thing
- You are welcome to come in and browse.
- browse something She browsed the shelves for something interesting to read.
- [intransitive, transitive] to look through a book, newspaper, website, etc. without reading everything
- I spent the whole evening just browsing on the internet.
- browse through something I found the article while I was browsing through some old magazines.
- to browse through the catalogue
- browse something I browsed the website for information about the event but didn’t find anything useful.
- [intransitive] browse (on something) (of cows, goats, etc.) to eat leaves, etc. that are growing high up
Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (4)): from Old French broster, from brost ‘young shoot’, probably of Germanic origin.
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