Let's learn about "훑다"

1. 훑다 : [Pronunciation: 흘따]

1) [벼 등(rice etc)] hackle; thrash; strip

- 벼를 훑다 : hackle[thrash / thresh] rice

- 뽕잎을 훑다 : strip off the leaves of a mulberry twig

- 손으로 잡아 훑다 :  draw[squeeze] through one's hand

- 훑어 내리다 hackle down

- 그가 밀 이삭을 훑으면 밀알이 아래로 떨어졌다 : As he stripped off the ears of wheat[stripped the wheat with his hands], the grains fell to the ground

2) [=제거하다] remove; scrub

- 나뭇가지의 껍질을 훑다 : scrub away the bark of a twig

- 생선속을 훑다 : remove the guts from a fish / gut a fish

3) [=훑어보다] see the following of 훑어보다 <-- 훑(the stem of 훑다) + -어(a connective suffix between two verbs) + 보다(see; look; watch)

2. 훑어보다 : [Pronunciation: 훌터보다]

1) look up and down; stare[look hard] at ; survey[search / study] ; scrutinize[peruse]

- 남의 위아래를 훑어보다 : stare a person up and down / survey a person from head to foot

- 남의 얼굴을 훑어보는 것은 실례다 : It is rude[bad form] to look[stare] a person up and down

- 그가 내 얼굴을 자꾸 훑어봐서 무안했다 : I was embarrassed because he kept surveying[searching / studying] my face

- 그는 나를 자세히 (위아래로) 훑어봤다 : He measured me with his eyes. / He surveyed me from top to bottom. / He devoured me with his eyes

2) [=죽 살피다] look[go] over[through] ; pass an eye over ; scan

- 대강 훑어보다 : run one's eyes through / glance[run] (one's eyes) over / skim over[through] / dip into / give a hurried glance

- 책을 죽 훑어보다 : look through a book

- 청구서[편지]를 죽 훑어보다 : look over a bill[letter]

- 서류를 대충[쓱] 훑어보다 : run one's eyes through[over] the papers

- 그들은 시체를 찾기 위해 강바닥을 훑어보았다 : They dragged the river bottom[the bottom of the river] for the dead body

- 그는 그녀를 죽 훑어보았다 : His eyes swept over the woman

- 그는 신문을 죽 훑어보았다 : He scanned[ran his eyes over] the newspaper