Glimpsed vs Glimpses - What's the difference?
glimpsed | glimpses |
(glimpse)
A brief look, glance, or peek.
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*(Samuel Rogers) (1763-1855)
*:Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen.
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*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
A sudden flash.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Light as the lightning glimpse they ran.
A faint idea; an inkling.
To see or view briefly or incompletely.
To appear by glimpses.
As verbs the difference between glimpsed and glimpses
is that glimpsed is (glimpse) while glimpses is (glimpse).As a noun glimpses is
.glimpsed
English
Verb
(head)glimpse
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(glimps)- I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.
- (Drayton)
