I quietly take out my camera, so as not to be noticed by my photographic subject, and peek through the finder.
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Peek
//piːk//
Synonyms for "peek" (32 found)
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Related words (16)
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1 entriesTranslations
47 translations across 21 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- loer verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Bulgarian
1 entries- надничам verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᎦᏘᎭ verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Chinese Cantonese
3 entries- 偷睇 verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- 偷窺 /偷窥 verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- 𥊙 verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 偷看 verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- 窺視 /窥视 verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Dutch
1 entries- gluren verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Finnish
4 entries- hakea verb (computing: To retrieve the value from a memory address)
- kurkistaa verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- lukea verb (computing: To retrieve the value from a memory address)
- pilkistää verb (To be only slightly, partially visible)
French
1 entries- jeter un coup d'œil verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Galician
3 entries- axexar verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- espreitar verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- guichar verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
German
4 entries- gucken verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- im Speicher nachsehen verb (computing: To retrieve the value from a memory address)
- linsen verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- lugen verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Hebrew
1 entries- הציץ verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Italian
1 entries- sbirciare verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Japanese
1 entries- 覗く verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Mokilese
1 entries- wujohr verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Persian
1 entries- نگاه دزدانه verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Portuguese
2 entries- dar uma espiada verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- espreitar verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Romanian
2 entries- arunca o privire verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- trage cu ochiul verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Russian
3 entries- загля́дывать verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- загляну́ть verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- подгля́дывать verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Spanish
4 entries- atisbar verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- atisbarse verb (To be only slightly, partially visible)
- echar un vistazo verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- entrever verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Swedish
4 entries- glutta verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- kika verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- slänga ett öga verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- tjuvkika verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Turkish
2 entries- dikizlemek verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
- göz atmak verb (To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Let's peek inside.
Source: tatoeba (2249538)
Don't peek.
Source: tatoeba (4647223)
The queue for the toilet has got too long. Do you think it's time we expedited things by having a peek?
Source: tatoeba (5150320)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.