insee

Verb

(third-person singular simple present insees, present participle inseeing, simple past insaw, past participle inseen)

To see into; to observe acutely.
To have or gain insight into; to empathise with or come to fully understand one's point of view.
To inspect

Origin

From in- +‎ see, or taken as a back-formation of inseeing, itself a loan-translation of German Einsehen (“recognition, observation”). Compare Old English onsēon (“to look on, observe, regard, take notice of”). More at insight.

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