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leaf

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of leaf

to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner

  • we must have spent hours leafing through wallpaper books before we found something we both liked
Synonyms of leaf

flip, riffle, skim, thumb
Words Related to leaf

browse, dip

glance (at), look over, scan
Near Antonyms of leaf

pore (over)

study

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