glimpse
/ˈɡlɪm(p)s/ verb C1- To see or view (someone, or something tangible) briefly and incompletely.
- To perceive (something intangible) briefly and incompletely. · I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.
- Chiefly followed by at or upon: to look at briefly and incompletely; to glance.
- To shine with a faint, unsteady light; to glimmer, to shimmer.
Plural glimpse · He/she/it glimpses · Past glimpsed · Past participle glimpsed · -ing form glimpsing
Verb forms
- Base form
- glimpse
- He/she/it
- glimpses
- Past
- glimpsed
- Past participle
- glimpsed
- -ing form
- glimpsing
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So he painted my right eye, and as soon as it was finished I found myself looking at him and at everything around me with a great deal of curiosity, for this was my first glimpse of the world.
Off to the left were the big barns and beyond them, away down over green, low-sloping fields, was a sparkling blue glimpse of sea.
Each a glimpse and gone forever!
“Well, gentlemen, the day before these happenings I was over in Tunbridge Wells, and I got a glimpse of a man in the street.
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