size sth/sb up
— phrasal verb with size uk/saɪz/us/saɪz/verb [ T ]
to examine something or someone carefully and decide what you think about it, him, or her:
Voters are still sizing up the candidates.
The two cats walked in circles around each other, sizing each other up.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Analysing and evaluating
- analyse
- analyser
- analyst
- analytical
- analyze
- critical
- go through sth
- have the measure of sb/sth idiom
- inspect
- inspection
- interpretive
- measure
- proof
- sell sb/yourself/sth short idiom
- set great, little, etc. store by sth idiom
- sift
- sit
- sit in judgment on/over sb idiom
- store
- survey
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