From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishread something ↔ through/over phrasal verbREADto read something carefully from beginning to end in order to check details or find mistakes SYN check over/through Read the contract over carefully before you sign it. Spend a couple of minutes just reading through your essay. → read→ See Verb table
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read through/over• Noreen tore in with it and sat on the sag-bag while he read it through.• Then Brian would sit by me and read it through.• Wade read the letter through again, then lay back and watched the snow slanting across the yellow firelight.• He read the letter over and over again, and with each re-reading the possibility of belief crept closer.• We found the computer manual and read half way through it the first night.• So you read it all through, straight, and the enigmatic force of his early poetry strikes you again.• Lee sat reading, folded over the book, chewing a knuckle now.• Holmes read the letter over the phone Thursday. 