LEAF
{ leeff }

Leaf

Through

Broadleaf
Broad-leafed
Cloverleaf

Flyleaf
Leafage
Eafiness

leafless
Leaf-like
Leaf-peep

Leafy
leave
Leaved

LEAF, v. { leeff } [ 1 ] To produce leaves — The trees leaf in April. { Expression } [ 1 ] To leaf out — Of a plant, to open its buds — This plant leafs out in May. { Phrasal verb } [ 1 ] To leaf through — To turn over the pages of a book, magazine, etc. without reading them carefully — He leafed through his history textbook. { combinations } [ with prepositional phrase ] [ a ] “Tourist hotels are in city,” she said, leafing curiously through the pages of my passport. [ b ] As I leafed through the book, my admiration for her skill grew and grew. [ c ] But the defence could question whether the entertainer knew the boy had been leafing through the magazines. [ d ] Like many commuters, one of my milder vices is leafing through a free copy of Metro on the morning train.

LEAF, v. { leeff } [ 1 ] To produce leaves — The trees leaf in April. { Expression } [ 1 ] To leaf out — Of a plant, to open its buds — This plant leafs out in May. { Phrasal verb } [ 1 ] To leaf through — To turn over the pages of a book, magazine, etc. without reading them carefully — He leafed through his history textbook. { combinations } [ with prepositional phrase ] [ a ] “Tourist hotels are in city,” she said, leafing curiously through the pages of my passport. [ b ] As I leafed through the book, my admiration for her skill grew and grew. [ c ] But the defence could question whether the entertainer knew the boy had been leafing through the magazines. [ d ] Like many commuters, one of my milder vices is leafing through a free copy of Metro on the morning train.

“Tourist hotels are in city,” she said, leafing curiously through the pages of my passport. [ The Atlantic ] She put on the sunglasses and leafed through the pages as we continued to walk on the quiet road leading up to the church. [ CNN.com ] As I leafed through the book, my admiration for her skill grew and grew. [ The Guardian ] The exhibition’s curator and designer stand at a cloth-covered table, leafing cautiously through rare books from the artist’s own library before they’re locked away inside special cases. [ Herald Scotland ] But the defence could question whether the entertainer knew the boy had been leafing through the magazines. [ London Evening Standard ] They stared at the screens of their mobile phones or leafed through magazines while their stylists hovered over them, the roar of the Buttercup Blow Dryers nearly unending. [ Los Angeles Times ] Like many commuters, one of my milder vices is leafing through a free copy of Metro on the morning train. [ BBC ] His role in “The Second Mortgage,” which dramatized Becket’s struggle to hang on to the theater, called for him to recline in a lounge chair and leaf through a copy of Variety [ Los Angeles Times ]

“Tourist hotels are in city,” she said, leafing curiously through the pages of my passport. [ The Atlantic ] She put on the sunglasses and leafed through the pages as we continued to walk on the quiet road leading up to the church. [ CNN.com ] As I leafed through the book, my admiration for her skill grew and grew. [ The Guardian ] The exhibition’s curator and designer stand at a cloth-covered table, leafing cautiously through rare books from the artist’s own library before they’re locked away inside special cases. [ Herald Scotland ] But the defence could question whether the entertainer knew the boy had been leafing through the magazines. [ London Evening Standard ] They stared at the screens of their mobile phones or leafed through magazines while their stylists hovered over them, the roar of the Buttercup Blow Dryers nearly unending. [ Los Angeles Times ] Like many commuters, one of my milder vices is leafing through a free copy of Metro on the morning train. [ BBC ] His role in “The Second Mortgage,” which dramatized Becket’s struggle to hang on to the theater, called for him to recline in a lounge chair and leaf through a copy of Variety [ Los Angeles Times ]

Word from the native lexical stock; from Old English lēaf, ‘leaf’; from Germanic lauban, ‘leaf’.