glance over

1. 1.

   examine hastily

   “She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi”

   Synonymsscanskimrakerun down

   Broaderexamine

Questions about glance over

What does glance over mean?

glance over means "examine hastily".

What is another word for glance over?

Close synonyms include scan, skim, rake, run down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is glance over a common word?

glance over is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.