0 past simple and past participle of peer
1 to look carefully or with difficulty:
I peered through a chink in the curtains and saw them all inside.
They leaned over the rails and peered down into the dizzying chasm below.
We peered through the crack in the floorboards.
The car nosed out of the side street, its driver peering anxiously around.
The slatted roof kept the public from the rain, while eyes of eager schoolboys peered through the slated fence.
Quite a few people peered into her eyes.
He peered into a couple of rooms and then finally saw a lone figure with his back to the door, hunched over a table.