weigh up

English

Verb

weigh up (third-person singular simple present weighs up, present participle weighing up, simple past and past participle weighed up)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To assess a person or a situation.
    She looked at him carefully, trying to weigh him up. Was he really telling the truth?

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