read someone's mind

English

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Verb

read someone's mind (third-person singular simple present reads someone's mind, present participle reading someone's mind, simple past and past participle read someone's mind)

1. (idiomatic) To guess or deduce what someone is thinking.

Derived terms

• read minds

Translations

to guess what someone is thinking

Chinese: Mandarin: 讀懂某人的心思 / 读懂某人的心思 (dúdǒng mǒurén de xīnsī) Finnish: lukea jonkun ajatukset French: lire dans les pensées Portuguese: ler a mente de alguém Russian: чита́ть мы́сли (čitátʹ mýsli) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: читати мисли impf Roman: čitati misli Spanish: leer la mente Thai: อ่านใจ

See also

• have one's head read