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To shuffle playing cards, typically by separating the deck in two and mixing the two parts
“I shall riffle the cards so slowly that there can not be even the suggestion of trickery.”
To browse or peruse reading material
“He opened the hotel register, which was lying on the counter near the bell, and began to riffle through the pages until he came to the last page that had been written on.”
To ruffle with a rippling action
“Riffle the sheets so they will not lay directly over each other.”
To disorder or disarrange the order or neatness of
To look over or scrutinize, especially a wide area
Plural for a quick skim through the pages of a book
“A riffle through the pages revealed nothing more than a running total of household accounts, a summary taken from the housekeeper's records.”
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