inspect
/ɪnˈspɛkt/ verb B2- To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize. · Inspect the system for leaks.
- To observe the status or nature of an object beyond what is found obvious upon its initial presentation; to 'view within' the object.
- To examine officially. · The general inspected the troops and their barracks.
He/she/it inspects · Past inspected · Past participle inspected · -ing form inspecting
Verb forms
- Base form
- inspect
- He/she/it
- inspects
- Past
- inspected
- Past participle
- inspected
- -ing form
- inspecting
From the library
If you had as many brains in your head as you have hairs in your beard, you would never have gone down before you had inspected the way up, nor have exposed yourself to dangers from which you had no means of escape.”
We found three or four grooms and idlers standing in the drive inspecting a bicycle which had been drawn out from a clump of evergreens in which it had been concealed.
Watson’s umbrella, I was able last night to fish up and inspect this bundle.
We met next day as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms at No.
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