Wiktionary
vb. to examine something (especially written material) carefully and attentively
Usage examples of "pore over".
They would pin the latest newspapers and magazines up on a reading stand in front of his face and he would pore over them, his eyes flicking back and forth between the coverage on the televisions and the printed page.
In this, as in all else, she trusted him, and left him to pore over the plans.
You pore over everything repeatedly, searching each layer, making calculations and projections.
Michelangelo was left alone to pore over the drawings of gods and goddesses, allegorical figures, all overwhelmed by the structural mass.
At other times, he had me pore over maps of Terre d'Ange with him, correcting and clarifying the topography as best I could.
We have no grand desire to have these images arrive across the ages for Institute lawyers to pore over, looking for reasons to punish our own species-cousins, still roaming the stars.
Jop was an adept, but the farmer declined, preferring to pore over his book of scrolls.
But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles.
He learned to read early, and once having learned, was never so full of pleasure as when he had a volume to pore over.
Why should immortals pore over newspapers, she would ask, or dwell in palaces?