umschauen

German

Etymology

From um- + schauen.

Verb

umschauen (third-person singular simple present schaut um, past tense schaute um, past participle umgeschaut, auxiliary haben)

  1. (reflexive, chiefly southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland) to look around (nach for)
    • 1918, Meinrad Lienert, ‘Kaiser Karl und die Schlange’, Zürcher Sagen:
      Nun schaute sich der Kaiser bedeutungsvoll im Kreis seiner Helden um.
      Then the king looked meaningfully around his circle of knights.

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