see
verb
uk
/siː/ us
/siː/ present participle seeing | past tense saw | past participle seensee verb (USE EYES)
A1 [ I or T ]
Turn the light on so I can see.
I can see you!
[ + (that) ] The teacher could see (that) the children had been fighting.
[ + -ing verb ] From the window we could see the children playing in the yard.
[ + past participle ] His parents saw him awarded the winner's medal.
UK See over (= look at the next page) for further information.
- seeI can see for miles from up here.
- noticeI noticed a crack in the ceiling.
- perceiveBill perceived a tiny figure in the distance.
- observeA teacher observed her climbing over the gate.
- spotWe managed to spot a leopard.
- catch sight ofWe looked for the bird and caught sight of it just as it flew off.
A2 [ T ]
Did you see that documentary on Channel 4 last night?
- accommodate
- accommodation
- all eyes are on someone/something idiom
- astigmatic
- beholder
- cast
- chart
- corner
- discern
- fix
- glare
- have a butcher's idiom
- penetrating
- re-see
- re-sight
- rest on someone/something
- resurvey
- rubbernecking
- sighting
- tab
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see verb (UNDERSTAND)
B1 [ T ]
[ + (that) ] I see (that) the club is organizing a theatre trip next month.
[ + question word ] He can't see what difference it makes to come (= he doesn't think it is important if he comes) on Thursday instead of Friday.
They didn't see the need/any need (= understand that it was important) to notify their members of the changes in writing.
The government didn't want to be seen to be making concessions to terrorists.
- appreciation for something
- apprehend
- apprehensible
- apprehension
- astutely
- bear
- colour
- dot
- handle
- keenness
- keep someone up
- know a hawk from a handsaw idiom
- know the score idiom
- know/see where someone is coming from idiom
- speak
- tease something apart
- to get a handle on something idiom
- to have a handle on something idiom
- tumble to something
- tune in
see verb (MEET)
A1 [ I or T ]
No one has seen much of Daryl since he got married.
They see a lot of each other (= are often together).
- acquaintance
- ayup
- bump into someone
- conclave
- counter-rally
- cross someone's path/cross paths with someone idiom
- fish
- mass
- meeting
- muster point
- open house
- paths cross idiom
- pay your respects idiom
- play date
- power breakfast
- power lunch
- re-encounter
- re-meet
- rendezvous
- respect
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see verb (CONSIDER)
B2 [ T ]
to consider or think about, especially to think about someone or something in a particular way, or to imagine someone doing a particular activity:
She didn't see herself as brave.
[ + obj + -ing verb ] I can't see her accepting (= I don't think she will accept) the job in the present circumstances.
- imagineYou can just imagine her storing up these anecdotes for her dinner parties.
- think ofI want you to think of a time when you felt happy.
- pictureCan you picture yourself at the age of 60 doing what you do now?
- pictureWhen I say 'your car' you have a picture of that in your head.
- in your mind's eyeIn my mind's eye, I'm still a uni student and not a middle-aged worker.
- conceiveI can't conceive why anyone would want to hurt her.
- a brown study idiom
- agonize
- agonize over/about something
- beard-stroking
- bethink
- grapple
- hit on/upon something
- I/we'll (have to) see idiom
- in the cold light of day idiom
- introspect
- introspection
- navel
- rationalize
- reckon
- revisit
- reweigh
- rumination
- run through someone's mind/head idiom
- scratch your head idiom
- weigh
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see verb (GO WITH)
[ T usually + adv/prep ]
to take someone somewhere by going there with them:
see verb (TRY TO DISCOVER)
Will you see if you can get anyone to help?
I'll see what I can do.
- A game
- all out
- assault
- attempt
- attempted
- commitment
- give something your best shot idiom
- go after someone
- go all out idiom
- go down swinging/fighting idiom
- go for someone
- nose
- shoot for the moon idiom
- shoot the works idiom
- smarten (someone/something) up
- smarten up your act idiom
- spare
- square the circle idiom
- stretch
- struggle
see verb (MAKE CERTAIN)
C2 [ + (that) ]
The receptionist said he'd see (that) she got the message.
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