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browse verb [ braʊz ]

• survey goods for sale in a leisurely and casual way.
• "he stopped to browse around a second-hand bookshop"
Similar: look around/round, have a look, window-shop, peruse,
• (of an animal) feed on leaves, twigs, or other high-growing vegetation.
• "they reach upward to browse on bushes"
Similar: graze, feed, eat, nibble, crop, pasture, ruminate,

browse noun

• an act of casual looking or reading.
• "a browse through the sports pages"
• vegetation, such as twigs and young shoots, eaten by animals.
• "a moose needs to eat forty to fifty pounds of browse a day"
Origin: late Middle English (in browse (sense 2 of the verb)): from Old French broster, from brost ‘young shoot’, probably of Germanic origin.


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