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(stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.

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To form a mental picture of.

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(social) To meet, to visit.

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To be the setting or time of.

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1999 saw the release of many great films.

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(by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.

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I'll see you hang for this!  I saw that they didn't make any more trouble.

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To wait upon; attend, escort.

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I saw the old lady safely across the road.

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To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.

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I'll see your twenty dollars and raise you ten.

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To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).

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I'll come over later and see if I can fix your computer.

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(used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.

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For a complete proof of the Poincaré conjecture, see Appendix C.

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To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.

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Can I see that lighter for a second? Mine just quit working.

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To include as one of something's experiences.

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The equipment has not seen usage outside of our projects.

You should have seen Dad's face.

I've seen opossums that weren't afraid of me, though.

The Christmas tree could only be seen from the back of the house, but that didn't matter.

No, I think I've seen enough.

In all the time I spent in the woods as a young girl, that's the first time I've seen a bear.

One day word came that a savage wolf had been seen in the forest.

Have you seen that house?

No, she had seen the postman drive up every day since she sent out the letter.

I thought they would never go, said the countess, when she had seen her guests out.

A stop for lunch and then a drive over the biggest bridge Carmen had ever seen - and then they were in Galveston.

Never had she seen Alex so hostile - not even with Josh.

You haven't seen anything important yet.

We have seen it most recently and most profoundly in the Arab Spring, where the motto we see again and again is Ash-sha'b yurid isqat an-nizam, or "The people want to bring down the regime."

The next time she glanced at the table where she had seen the driver, no one was there.

Then some one outside called loudly, "Have you seen King Robert the Bruce pass this way?"

In the 1968 book The Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant calculated that, "In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war."

They could be seen very plainly, for here the ground was quite muddy.

I have not seen him since we acted together at the Rumyantsovs' theatricals.

Alex was uneasy because he and his biological father had never seen eye to eye.

Katie had been telling him that for years, but he hadn't seen it until now.

When the kitchen door opened suddenly, they jerked apart and turned guilty faces to Sarah, whose expression made it clear she had seen and comprehended their actions.

You have not yet seen my husband?

Glinka, the editor of the Russian Messenger, who was recognized (cries of "author! author!" were heard in the crowd), said that "hell must be repulsed by hell," and that he had seen a child smiling at lightning flashes and thunderclaps, but "we will not be that child."

I haven't even seen him since the funeral.

He has seen me in my blindness, and is trying to open my eyes.

The countess, with a coldness her son had never seen in her before, replied that he was of age, that Prince Andrew was marrying without his father's consent, and he could do the same, but that she would never receive that intriguer as her daughter.

This was Anatole Kuragin whom she had seen and noticed long ago at the ball in Petersburg.

Why, you have only seen him three times!

For a few minutes they held on to each other, kissing as if they hadn't seen each other in a week.

There were so many people she had never seen - lots of good looking women.

He wasn't sure she had seen anything, or surely he would have accused her.

Had he seen them as well?

That was where she had seen Bordeaux!

He remembered that he had seen many bees flying among these flowers and gathering honey from them.

In parts of the world where these three ingredients exist, we have seen prosperity rise.

So, when I tell you we will see the end of war, if you are over thirty-five years of age, you have every reason to roll your eyes and tell me you have seen this movie before and aren't up for the sequel.

It was of small dimensions, with a peaked cottage roof, and not much else to be seen, the dirt being raised five feet all around as if it were a compost heap.

I have frequently seen a poet withdraw, having enjoyed the most valuable part of a farm, while the crusty farmer supposed that he had got a few wild apples only.

I have certainly acquired a taste for war, and it is just as well for me; what I have seen during these last three months is incredible.

An old peasant whom Prince Andrew in his childhood had often seen at the gate was sitting on a green garden seat, plaiting a bast shoe.

And not the face she had known ever since she could remember and had always seen at a distance, but the timid, feeble face she had seen for the first time quite closely, with all its wrinkles and details, when she stooped near to his mouth to catch what he said.

Here and there over the whole of that blue expanse, to right and left of the forest and the road, smoking campfires could be seen and indefinite masses of troops--ours and the enemy's.

She greeted them with a big smile, hugging each of them as if they were old friends she hadn't seen in a decade.

They hadn't seen her in church for a while and they were worried about her.

That didn't explain what she had seen at the building.

Twenty-five years ago, I had never seen a mobile phone.

So close, and yet she had never seen one in the yard.

His boney legs moved so fast they could scarcely be seen, and the Wizard clung fast to the seat and yelled "Whoa!" at the top of his voice.

There were no balls of fire to be seen now.

For instance, have you ever seen one of those people on TV who is turning one hundred and says he ate bacon every day of his life?