Thesaurus results for LEER (AT)

leer (at)

verb

ˈlir

Definition of leer (at)

as in to make eyes (at)

to look at in a flirtatious or desiring way upbraided the man for leering at the young waitress

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Walk down the boardwalk and stairs to the New River Gorge Bridge Overlook at Canyon Rim Visitor Center to snap a pic with your pup and ogle over the longest steel arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere.

— Rebecca R. Norris, USA Today, 29 June 2026
Give everyone a chance to ogle the views by taking turns driving, and don’t miss any opportunity to pull over for the stunning vistas of Banff National Park.

— Rebecca Deurlein, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2026

Definition of ogle

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However, the finale shows Oreana eyeing the positive results of a pregnancy test before asking Carter to run away together and start over.

— Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 3 July 2026
The Swift operations team at Penn State University’s Eberly College of Science has reduced power usage and steered the observatory to eye the cosmos from a more streamlined position.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 July 2026

Definition of eye

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His suns stare curiously from one side of a page spread to another and his stacks of hay worriedly study the horizon, while his one-eyed stools and one-eyed fenceposts pop up like eager cyclopses.

— Casey Cep, New Yorker, 7 July 2026
No foul was assessed in real time, and the red card was awarded only after the official stared at a slow-motion replay.

— Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026

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