explore
/ɪkˈsploɹ/ verb A2- To examine or investigate something systematically. · The committee has been exploring alternative solutions to the problem at hand.
- To travel somewhere in search of discovery. · It was around that time that the expedition began exploring the Arctic Circle.
- To examine diagnostically.
- To (seek) experience first hand. · It is normal for a boy of this age to be exploring his sexuality.
- To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses. · He was too busy exploring to notice his son needed his guidance.
- To wander without any particular aim or purpose. · The boys explored all around till cold and hunger drove them back to the campfire one by one.
- To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.
He/she/it explores · Past explored · Past participle explored · -ing form exploring
Verb forms
- Base form
- explore
- He/she/it
- explores
- Past
- explored
- Past participle
- explored
- -ing form
- exploring
From the library
Elizabeth longed to explore its windings; but when they had crossed the bridge, and perceived their distance from the house, Mrs.
They explored all the passages and dark tunnels in the palace and the hundreds of little dark rooms, but they never remembered what they had seen and what they had not; and so drifted about in ones and twos or crowds telling each other that they were doing as men did.
She led her class to think and explore and discover for themselves and encouraged straying from the old beaten paths to a degree that quite shocked Mrs.
I must explore the garden and see what I could find.
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