Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to peer
Participle: peered
Gerund: peering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | peer |
| you | peer |
| he;she;it | peers |
| we | peer |
| you | peer |
| they | peer |
Perfect
| I | have peered |
| you | have peered |
| he;she;it | has peered |
| we | have peered |
| you | have peered |
| they | have peered |
Past
| I | peered |
| you | peered |
| he;she;it | peered |
| we | peered |
| you | peered |
| they | peered |
Pluperfect
| I | had peered |
| you | had peered |
| he;she;it | had peered |
| we | had peered |
| you | had peered |
| they | had peered |
Future
| I | will peer |
| you | will peer |
| he;she;it | will peer |
| we | will peer |
| you | will peer |
| they | will peer |
Future Perfect
| I | will have peered |
| you | will have peered |
| he;she;it | will have peered |
| we | will have peered |
| you | will have peered |
| they | will have peered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | peer |
| you | peer |
| he;she;it | peer |
| we | peer |
| you | peer |
| they | peer |
Perfect
| I | have peered |
| you | have peered |
| he;she;it | have peered |
| we | have peered |
| you | have peered |
| they | have peered |
Imperfect
| I | peered |
| you | peered |
| he;she;it | peered |
| we | peered |
| you | peered |
| they | peered |
Pluperfect
| I | had peered |
| you | had peered |
| he;she;it | had peered |
| we | had peered |
| you | had peered |
| they | had peered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would peer |
| you | would peer |
| he;she;it | would peer |
| we | would peer |
| you | would peer |
| they | would peer |
Perfect
| I | would have peered |
| you | would have peered |
| he;she;it | would have peered |
| we | would have peered |
| you | would have peered |
| they | would have peered |
Imperative
| you | peer |
| we | Let's peer |
| you | peer |
Verbs conjugated like 'peer'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'peer'
beer,
jeer,
leer,
pee,
peek,
peel,
peen,
peep,
peter,
speer,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan
3. Old English *pȳran
4. Middle English peren
5. English peer
6. From Middle English peren, pyren, piren (“to peer, gaze”), perhaps from Old English *pȳran (“to look, peer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan (“to look”), related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“to look”), Dutch Low Saxon piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”), Middle English pouren (“to gaze, look closely”), English pore (“to study meticulously”). Compare also West Frisian pluere (“to peer”), Dutch pluren (“to gaze squintingly”), German Low German plieren (“to blink”), Danish plire (“to peer”), Swedish plira, blira (“to peer”), and thence ultimately related to the root of English blear.
7. The sense meaning "to be visible" is perhaps from a shortening of appear. See: Frisian, Saterlandic 'pierje', Dutch '
pieren', English '
pore', Dutch '
pluren', Danish '
plire', Swedish '
plira', English '
blear'.
Verbs referencing "peer"
Swedish
plira.
Sample Sentences
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[...] black hair, fine as floss silk, hung in glossy curls about his round, dimpled face, while a pair of large dark eyes, full of fire and softness, looked out from beneath the rich, long lashes, as he peered curiously into the apartment. A gay robe of scarlet and yellow plaid, carefully made and neatly fitted, set off to advantage the dark and rich style of his beauty; and a certain comic air of [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] style and effect of his physique. He was accompanied by a travelling companion, in many respects an exact contrast to himself. He was short and slender, lithe and catlike in his motions, and had a peering, mousing expression about his keen black eyes, with which every feature of his face seemed sharpened into sympathy; his thin, long nose, ran out as if it was eager to bore into the nature of things [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] and blotting out of all fairer characters traced by Nature 's hand; immeasurably outdo his worst belief. That travelled creation of the great satirist 's brain, who fresh from living among horses, peered from a high casement down upon his own kind with trembling horror, was scarcely more repelled and daunted by the sight, than those who look upon some of these faces for the first time must surely be.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] ever yearning toward the simple and childlike, watched the little creature with daily increasing interest. To him she seemed something almost divine; and whenever her golden head and deep blue eyes peered out upon him from behind some dusky cotton-bale, or looked down upon him over some ridge of packages, he half believed that he saw one of the angels stepped out of his New Testament.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] carried on her part very well, had not little Eliza suddenly appeared before her in exact shape and form, every outline and curl, just as her daughter was when she saw her last. The little thing peered up in her face; and Cassy caught her up in her arms, pressed her to her bosom, saying, what, at the moment she really believed, “ Darling, I 'm your mother ! ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)