The Clue
Speed-read (7 letter answer)
The Answer
SCANNED
Tags
Notes
The answer SCANNED is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 1600 puzzles.
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Definition
SCAN as a verb:
1. examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the X-ray"
2. (scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down) = examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
3. make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night sky"
4. conform to a metrical pattern
5. move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
6. read metrically; "scan verses"
7. (read, scan) = obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer"