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investigate

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  1. =  examine, study, research, consider, go into, explore, search for, analyse, look into, inspect, look over, sift, probe into, work over, scrutinize, inquire into, make inquiries about, enquire into • Gas officials are investigating the cause of the explosion.

'investigate' in Other Languages

  • British English: investigate If someone investigates an event, situation, or claim, they try to find out what happened. VERBGas officials are investigating the cause of an explosion which badly damaged a house.
  • Brazilian Portuguese: investigar
  • Chinese: 调查调調查
  • European Spanish: investigar
  • French: enquêter sur
  • German: untersuchen
  • Italian: indagare
  • Japanese: 調査する
  • Korean: 조사하다
  • Portuguese: investigar
  • Spanish: investigar

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