glimpse
verb/ɡlɪmps/
/ɡlɪmps/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they glimpse | /ɡlɪmps/ /ɡlɪmps/ |
| he / she / it glimpses | /ˈɡlɪmpsɪz/ /ˈɡlɪmpsɪz/ |
| past simple glimpsed | /ɡlɪmpst/ /ɡlɪmpst/ |
| past participle glimpsed | /ɡlɪmpst/ /ɡlɪmpst/ |
| -ing form glimpsing | /ˈɡlɪmpsɪŋ/ /ˈɡlɪmpsɪŋ/ |
- glimpse somebody/something to see somebody/something for a moment, but not very clearly synonym catch (8), spot
- He'd glimpsed her through the window as he passed.
- Anne is glimpsed briefly at the beginning of the film.
- glimpse something to start to understand something
- Suddenly she glimpsed the truth about her sister.
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘shine faintly’): probably of Germanic origin; related to Middle High German glimsen, also to glimmer.
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