peeping
窥视,偷窥,窥探,偷视
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Definitions
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- : to look through a small opening or from a concealed location.
- : to look slyly, pryingly, or furtively.
- : to look curiously or playfully.
- : to come partially into view; begin to appear: the first crocuses peeping through the snow-covered ground.
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- : to show or protrude slightly.
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- : a quick or furtive look or glance.
- : the first appearance, as of dawn.
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Examples
Before the credits rolled, I’d grown quite comfortable using Miles’s cloaking ability to surgically pick off enemies by dangling above their heads and sweeping them up in a web or knocking them out from behind before they’d make a peep.
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The Twilight star was spotted in Australia wearing a baseball cap with no visible hair peeping out of its side.
Yoshiyuki was spying on the Peeping Toms while they were spying on the unsuspecting lovers.
“We shall make Mr. Pickwick pay for peeping,” said Fogg, with considerable native humour, as he unfolded his papers.
Just as it disappeared from view he caught a glimpse of a charming little girl, peeping out of a latticed window beside the door.
Ibrahim was standing there, peeping out whimsically from his fringed and tasselled wrappings, and smoking a cigarette.
"Sh-h—be quiet," warned Betty, peeping again through the slit in the curtain.
The dawn, peeping in between the flowered curtains, throws a white, innocent light over her cot.