Thesaurus / investigate
other words for investigate
- consider
- examine
- explore
- inspect
- interrogate
- probe
- question
- review
- scrutinize
- search
- study
- bug
- case
- delve
- dig
- eyeball
- frisk
- inquire
- muckrake
- poke
- prospect
- pry
- read
- reconnoiter
- research
- scout
- sift
- spy
- tap
- wiretap
- be all ears
- check out
- check over
- check up
- feel out
- give the once over
- go into
- inquisite
- listen in
- look into
- look over
- look-see
- make inquiry
- nose around
- put to the test
- run down
- stake out
See also synonyms for: investigated / investigating
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The officers decided to investigate while the inmates of the house were still asleep.
Minnie, if I were you I really should not investigate those papers.
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Some trustees were appointed to investigate the whole affair, for Fred was as ignorant as a child of all pertaining to the mill.
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Medical practitioners, who derive an enormous revenue from dyspepsia, should take some pains to investigate this subject.
At another place in the same neighbourhood a wolf, coming in to investigate our camp, was attacked by my big deerhound Tom.
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The doubt implied in that last answer decided Midwinter to investigate the matter on the spot.
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He turned on the lights and without waiting to investigate, went into the shower-room and stood under the tepid deluge.
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This brought Bernheim to investigate Liebault's method of hypnotism and made him a convert to its practice.
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Antony put his bag down on the table and went to investigate the door.
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One way is to think—to investigate, to observe, and follow the light of reason.
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