glimpse

About 5.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb 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.

2. verb To see or view (someone, or something tangible) briefly and incompletely.
3. verb To perceive (something intangible) briefly and incompletely.

   I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.

4. verb 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.
5. verb Chiefly followed by at or upon: to look at briefly and incompletely; to glance.
6. verb To shine with a faint, unsteady light; to glimmer, to shimmer.
7. verb To appear or start to appear, especially faintly or unclearly; to dawn.
8. verb Sometimes followed by out: to provide a brief and incomplete look.

Similar words

glance glimmer blink gleam flash peek glow gaze sight perspective

Often followed by

of into the at a in through i that

Word family

glimpsed glimpser glimpsers glimpses glimpsing