Antonyms for probe
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1. probenoun

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

2. probenoun

   To explore, investigate, or question

   If you probe further, you may discover different reasons.

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

3. probenoun

   To insert a probe into.

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

4. probenoun

   An act of probing; a prod, a poke.

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

5. probenoun

   An investigation or inquiry.

   They launched a probe into the cause of the accident.

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

6. probenoun

   A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

7. probenoun

   A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.

   Insert the probe into the soil and read the temperature.

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

8. probenoun

   A small, usually unmanned, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

9. probenoun

   a move with multiple answers seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.5 / 4 votes

1. probe

   Antonyms:
   skim, misinvestigate, blink, misexamine, slur, miss, gloss

   Synonyms:
   prove, test, scrutinize, verify, investigate, examine, search, silt, explore

Matched Categories

1. • Exploration
   • Inquiry
   • Investigate
   • Surgical Instrument

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.7 / 3 votes

1. probe, investigationnoun

   an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities

   "there was a congressional probe into the scandal"

   Synonyms:
   investigation, investigating

2. probenoun

   a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities

   Synonyms:
   investigation

3. probenoun

   an exploratory action or expedition

   Synonyms:
   investigation

4. probeverb

   an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity

   Synonyms:
   investigation

5. probe, examineverb

   question or examine thoroughly and closely

   Synonyms:
   see, examine, poke into, study, try, canvass, essay, test, analyze, prove, analyse, canvas, dig into, try out

6. probe, dig into, poke intoverb

   examine physically with or as if with a probe

   "probe an anthill"

   Synonyms:
   poke into, dig into, examine

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1. probeverb

   Synonyms:
   investigate, examine

How to use probe in a sentence?

1. Jane Ishmael:

   There are other minor cannabinoids and traces in the plant that can be hard to study, but by isolation we can continue to assess the effects they might offer, historically, many of our medicines have been derived by or inspired by natural products. By having new compounds that bind with very high affinity, that will give scientists a new probe into biological sciences.

2. Erin Kara:

   Tidal disruption events offer us this rare view at the most common kind of supermassive black hole in the universe— these so-called dormant supermassive black holes, tidal disruption events, where the stellar debris causes the formation of a temporary accretion disk, offers us a way to probe this population of supermassive black holes.

3. Cory Booker:

   What I want right now is for us to when it comes to Brett Kavanaugh... to wait until this Mueller probe is done, no American citizen should be able to choose the person who will be judging them when they are subject to a criminal investigation should those matters come before that judge.

4. Vyacheslav Volodin:

   There was no probe yet, and it is unlikely to be impartial considering the current situation in Ukraine, that's why all statements made instantly are an attempt, on the one hand, to shuffle off the blame on to someone else. On the other hand, everything suggests that all that may have been orchestrated.

5. Roger Stone:

   Read MoreStone knows nothing about Russian Collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration or any other impropriety related to the 2016 election which I thought was the subject of this probe.

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