Went vs Perused - What's the difference?
went | perused |
(go)
(nonstandard)
(archaic) (wend)
(obsolete) A course; a way, a path; a journey.
* Chaucer
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
(peruse)
An examination or perusal; an instance of perusing.
* 2008 , Dave Robson, "
To examine or consider with care.
* {{quote-book, 1847,
, passage=Sitting on a low stool, a few yards from her arm-chair, I examined her figure; I perused her features.}}
To read completely.
* {{quote-book, 1887,
, passage=We are for reasons that, after perusing this manuscript, you may be able to guess, going away again this time to Central Asia
(informal) To look over casually; to skim.
* {{quote-book, 2001, Doug Stanton, In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis, page=35
, passage=Haynes quickly perused the message, then took it to the captain on the bridge. }}
* {{quote-book, 2005, , Acid Alex, page=98
, passage=She asked Denise for the court file, which she fussed from her handbag. The woman perused it briefly and then beamed up at me.}}
(regional) To go from place to place; to wander.
* {{quote-book, 1957, , The Old Man And The Boy, page=55
, passage=I loved to straggle off in the mornings
As verbs the difference between went and perused
is that went is (go) while perused is (peruse).As a noun went
is (obsolete) a course; a way, a path; a journey.went
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(head)Derived terms
* (l), (l) (both archaic)Statistics
*Noun
(en noun)- At a turning of a wente .
- But here my wearie teeme, nigh over spent, / Shall breathe it selfe awhile after so long a went .
perused
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(head)Anagrams
*peruse
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Noun
(en noun)Hi-tea, low cost!", Evening Gazette online, September 12,
- A peruse of the website looked promising
Verb
(perus)citation
citation
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