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look round en · VERB
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(idiomatic) To inspect a building or area.
We're interested in buying this house, can we look round tomorrow?
He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
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(idiomatic) To search a place.
I can't find my keys, so I'll look round.
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(idiomatic, intransitive) To turn one's head to see what is behind oneself.
He heard a voice and looked round to see a man wearing dark clothes.
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