fathoming

We work for the pleasure of working, of fathoming the secrets of nature, and of instructing ourselves.

There is a mystery connected with Griffith's tenure of office which I could never succeed in fathoming.

Trust a woman for fathoming all the shades of doubt which overhang the addresses of a lover!

He was pleased with his own shrewdness in fathoming Gray Stoddard's mysterious motives.

Yet the Princess's most ultimate and affectionate enemies had not succeeded in fathoming the mystery.