review
/ɹɪˈvju/ verb B2- To survey; to look broadly over. · Before I tackle the question directly, I must briefly review historical approaches to the problem.
- To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review. · The critic reviews every new play in London.
- To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
- To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
He/she/it reviews · Past reviewed · Past participle reviewed · -ing form reviewing
Verb forms
- Base form
- review
- He/she/it
- reviews
- Past
- reviewed
- Past participle
- reviewed
- -ing form
- reviewing
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The crime was depicted in the most vivid colors; the former life of the prisoner, his transformation, a review of his life from the earliest period, were set forth with all the talent that a knowledge of human life could furnish to a mind like that of the procureur.
Review your life, Albert; although it is only just beginning, did a lovely summer’s day ever dawn with greater purity than has marked the commencement of your career?
On the evening of the day on which Valentine had learned of the flight of Eugénie and the arrest of Benedetto,—Villefort having retired as well as Noirtier and d’Avrigny,—her thoughts wandered in a confused maze, alternately reviewing her own situation and the events she had just heard.
“Why, this is the way of it,” said the minister, with the gravest air in the world: “Napoleon lately had a review, and as two or three of his old veterans expressed a desire to return to France, he gave them their dismissal, and exhorted them to ‘serve the good king.’ These were his own words, of that I am certain.”
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