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UKsize up
/sˈaɪz ˈʌp/
/sˈaɪz ˈʌp/to size up
[VERB] MAIN VERB
[phrase form: size]
1
to observe or examine someone or something in order to form a judgment
Examples
1. The shepherd boy, David, sizes up the giant.
2. And he sized up the response.
3. Stephen Colbert sizes up David Letterman's desk and Eric Roberts celebrity wife-swaps with Robin Leach:
4. Jan Molby will size up the free kick then.
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