0 past simple and past participle of peer --
1 to look carefully or with difficulty: --
People peered from windows and rooftops for their first glimpse of this western army.
Observing that most jewelry in shop windows he peered into followed the same styles and dimensions, he started his own firm in 1956.
They brought the bird before their emperor, who peered into the mirror and saw warriors mounted on deer.
We peered over the top and the view was surreal.
I was reminded of the actor who peered out from behind the stage curtains at the theatre and discovered that there were only two people present.
I am on record as saying that, when the scare blew up in 1988, we immediately seized the wrong end of the telescope through which we peered at the problem.
He was referring to one ugly face which had peered round the corner of the capitalist system.
They peered over the barbed wire to see their land to the east empty with between three and six people per square kilometre.
