Synonyms for read

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verb

1. To understand by reading

   comprehend, go through, peruse, study, pore over, scan, skim, browse, glance over, go over, examine, gather, see, know, perceive, apprehend, grasp, learn, flip through the pages, thumb through, wade through, dip into, scratch the surface, run the eye over, bury oneself in, have one's nose in a book*, crack a book*; see also understand 1.

2. To interpret

   view, render, translate, decipher, decode, make out, unravel, express, explain, expound, construe, perceive, paraphrase, restate, put; see also interpret 1.

3. To contain when read

   state, hold, indicate, register, record, show, express, assert, affirm.

4. To utter printed matter aloud

   present, deliver, recite, sound out; see address 2, recite 1.