weigh up

English

Verb

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

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

Translations

assess a situation

Dutch: inschatten (nl), peilen (nl)
Japanese: 評価する (hyōka suru)
Maori: whakaraupeka

Serbo-Croatian: procijéniti (sh) pf (проције́нити), procjenjívati (sh) pf (процјењи́вати)
Spanish: sopesar (es)

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