scrutinize
/ˈskɹutn̩ˌaɪz/ verb C1- To examine something with great care or detail, as to look for hidden or obscure flaws. · to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals
- To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.
He/she/it scrutinizes · Past scrutinized · Past participle scrutinized · -ing form scrutinizing
Verb forms
- Base form
- scrutinize
- He/she/it
- scrutinizes
- Past
- scrutinized
- Past participle
- scrutinized
- -ing form
- scrutinizing
From the library
Mercédès shuddered, and, fixing on her son a scrutinizing gaze, “You speak strangely,” said she to Albert, “and you appear to have some singular prejudices.
The doctor had taken the lamp and was narrowly scrutinizing the body.
The stout lady occasionally turned her head squarely around and surveyed Anne through her eyeglasses until Anne, acutely sensitive of being so scrutinized, felt that she must scream aloud; and the white-lace girl kept talking audibly to her next neighbor about the “country bumpkins” and “rustic belles” in the audience, languidly anticipating “such fun” from the displays of local talent on the program.
They fear the ear that hears their orders, and the eye that scrutinizes their actions.
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