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   Peer

   /pir/

   

   verb

   • 1. look keenly or with difficulty at someone or something: "Blake screwed up his eyes, trying to peer through the fog"
   • ▪ be just visible: "the two towers peer over the roofs"
   • ▪ come into view; appear: "for yet a many of your horsemen peer"

   Word Origin late 16th century: perhaps a variant of dialect pire or perhaps partly from a shortening of appear.

   Scrabble Points: 6

   • P

     3

   • E

     1

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

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