see through sb/sth
— phrasal verb with see uk/siː/us/siː/verb present participle seeing, past tense saw, past participle seen
B2 to realize that someone is trying to deceive you to get an advantage, or that someone's behaviour is intended to deceive you, and to understand the truth about the situation:
They were very friendly, but it didn't take long to see through them.
She saw through his excuse at once.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Understanding and comprehending
- apprehend
- apprehension
- at your fingertips idiom
- attune
- bear in on/upon
- common
- fathom
- feel
- fingertip
- hit
- make sth/sb of sth/sb
- make sth/sb out
- mind
- picture
- plumb
- read between the lines idiom
- reading
- realization
- take sth in
- twig
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