catch a glimpse

Verb

Meaning

see something for a brief time

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

take a look have a look get a look catch sight

Antonyms

blind omit suspend preclude avert shunt
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Hypernyms

see

Examples

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of. Leonardo da Vinci

Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else. Vince Neil

We need to see beyond our culture; we need to peer through the bars of commodification and alienation and catch a glimpse of a God far larger than our circumstances. Skye Jethani

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born. Zig Ziglar

We catch a glimpse of the great river of science which never ceases to flow in India. For India has carried and scattered the data of intellectual progress for the whole world, ever since the pre-Buddhist period when she produced the Sankhya philosophy and the atomic theory. Kakuzo Okakura

Close letter words and terms

catch a faint smell catch a falling knife catch a few zs catch a hold of catch a likeness catch a little sleep