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`verb \ˈbrau̇z\
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`: to look at many things in a store, in a newspaper, etc., to
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`see if there is something interesting or worth buying
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`: to use a special program (called a browser) to find and
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`look at information on the Internet
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`of an animal : to eat grass, plants, etc.
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`browsed brows·ing
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`Full Definition of BROWSE
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`transitive verb
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`a : to consume as browse
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`b : GRAZE
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`: to look over casually : SKIM
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`: to access (a network) by means of a browser
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`2 3
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`intransitive verb
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`a : to feed on or as if on browse
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`b : GRAZE
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`a : to skim through a book reading passages that catch the
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`eye
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`b : to look over or through an aggregate of things casually
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`especially in search of something of interest
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`— brows·able
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`adjective
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`Examples of BROWSE
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`Several customers were browsing in the bookstore.
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`He was browsing the want ads in the newspaper.
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`cows browsing in the pasture
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`Origin of BROWSE
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`Middle English brouusen, probably from Anglo-French brouts
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`First Known Use: 15th century
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`Related to BROWSE
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`Synonyms
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`1graze, forage, pasture, rustle
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`Antonyms
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`gaze, stare
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`Rhymes with BROWSE
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`blouse, bowse, douse, dowse, drowse, house, mouse, rouse,
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`spouse, touse
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`2browse noun
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`Definition of BROWSE
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`: tender shoots, twigs, and leaves of trees and shrubs used
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`by animals for food
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`2
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`: an act or instance of browsing
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`Origin of BROWSE
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`probably modification of Anglo-French brouts, plural of brout
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`sprout, of Germanic origin; akin to Old Saxon brustian to
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`sprout, and perhaps to Old English brēost breast — more at
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`BREAST
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`First Known Use: 1523
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`Buck Fever by Ben Rehder
`"He would put him on a leash and take him to the river where
`forage and browse were plentiful."
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`I wanted to use the word "browse" in a sentence included in a
`formal email. It turned out to be inappropriate..
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