Is “leer” a verb in English?
It is in Spanish. Do you “read” people? Are you “leery” or suspicious of certain individuals?
It seems to have the meaning of staring aggressively or suggestively in English. The dictionary suggests
Leo antes de acostarme para relajarme. — I read before going to bed to relax.
People “read” before going to be — say westerns and romances — or read another human being with such and such an eyeglass prescription. And a man’s eyeglass prescription will get him kicked out of the Army or Air Force for looking at a woman he’s not married to. And that’s the place where commissioned military officers silently twirl their mustaches with smug medical assumptions of “less than perfect” vision among the troops and military rejects as a dishonor rather than a disability, in the same way that “cancer” is treated as a moral diagnosis while “heart disease” is treason, and men need good healthy teeth pulled out of their jaws for the sake of the law of Moses at the dentist’s office.