Definition of "pore over" []

• To examine something (especially written material) carefully and attentively (verb)

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• "It might have been a library, and the studious-looking people in white coats librarians or archivists moving bundles of old manuscripts about very carefully, leafing through them, or settling to pore over them at well-lit desks."
• "When he was over eighty years, old he would woo the trout-streams with great success, and between times would pore over the Book till his eyes were dim."
• "His use of it was sparing—sheer weariness did not permit nightly reading—but possessing it had meant that he could pore over the treasure trove of books Jem Thistlethwaite had sent in the only leisure activity did not make him feel a traitor to his family."