заглядывать

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Russian

Etymology

загляд- (zagljad-) +‎ -ывать (-yvatʹ)

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Verb

загля́дывать (zagljádyvatʹimpf (perfective загляну́ть)

  1. to glance (at), to peep (in), to look (into), to have a look (at)
    загля́дывать в бу́дущееzagljádyvatʹ v búduščejeto look to the future
    загля́дывать вперёдzagljádyvatʹ vperjódto look ahead
    • 1862, Фёдор Достоевский, “Часть первая. X. Праздник Рождества Христова”, in Записки из Мёртвого дома; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., The House of the Dead, 1915:
      Караульный офицер раза три заглядывал во весь этот день в острог. Но пьяные прятались, майданы снимались при его появлении, да и сам он, казалось, решался не обращать внимания на мелкие беспорядки.
      Karaulʹnyj oficer raza tri zagljadyval vo vesʹ etot denʹ v ostrog. No pʹjanyje prjatalisʹ, majdany snimalisʹ pri jevo pojavlenii, da i sam on, kazalosʹ, rešalsja ne obraščatʹ vnimanija na melkije besporjadki.
      The officer on duty peeped into the prison three times during the day. But the drunken men were hidden and the cards were slipped away when he appeared, and he, too, seemed to have made up his mind not to notice minor offences.
  2. (colloquial) to drop in (on), to look in (on), to call (on)

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