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Synonyms for examine
ɪgˈzæm ɪnex·am·ine
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
examine
Synonyms:
weigh, ponder, investigate, perpend, test, scrutinize, criticize, prove, study, discuss, inquire, search, overhaul, explore, inspectAntonyms:
discard, conjecture, gnew, slur, misconsider, misinvestigate
Princeton's WordNet
analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvasverb
consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
"analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives"
Synonyms:
contemplate, try out, psychoanalyse, consider, essay, meditate, psychoanalyze, break down, hit the books, test, learn, dissect, canvass, analyse, read, take apart, study, poll, take, try, canvas, analyze, probe, prove, seeexamine, seeverb
observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
"The customs agent examined the baggage"; "I must see your passport before you can enter the country"
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date, take in, figure, go out, analyze, look, find out, reckon, try, interpret, essay, find, view, go steady, try out, get word, meet, study, probe, construe, determine, see, realize, see to it, fancy, picture, visualize, analyse, realise, control, encounter, escort, learn, envision, watch, run into, regard, run across, test, come across, prove, go through, image, take care, assure, witness, get wind, ensure, attend, pick up, understand, experience, canvas, catch, visualise, consider, ascertain, hear, canvass, project, visit, discover, insure, get a line, checkprobe, examineverb
question or examine thoroughly and closely
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see, probe, poke into, study, try, canvass, essay, test, analyze, prove, analyse, canvas, dig into, try outexamineverb
question closely
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see, analyze, study, try, canvass, essay, test, probe, prove, analyse, canvas, try outtest, prove, try, try out, examine, essayverb
put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
"This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"
Synonyms:
audition, rise, analyze, leaven, try, sample, show, testify, establish, test, evidence, try out, study, see, seek, try on, probe, quiz, attempt, essay, raise, adjudicate, render, prove, shew, judge, screen, taste, turn out, demonstrate, turn up, experiment, strain, analyse, stress, hear, canvass, assay, canvas, bear witness
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
examineverb
examineverb
Synonyms:
scrutinize, investigate, study, consider, canvass, inquire into, search into, look into, inquire aboutexamineverb
Synonyms:
interrogate (in order to elicit truth or to test qualifications), catechise, put questions to
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
examineverb
Synonyms:
inspect, scrutinize, question, audit, heckle, reconnoitre, review, search, probe, investigate, catechise
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "examine":
consider, review, discuss, explore, investigate, study, examining, reviewing, consideration, analyse, browse, considering, examination, scrutinise, examines, studying, look, address, analyze, reviews, assess, check, research, examined, verify, scrutinize
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After 11 years of monopoly conduct and profits, we think its high time that a court examine Apples practices on behalf of iOS app developers and take action as warranted by the law and facts.
The issue of water availability (or the lack of it) has often been mentioned by researchers who work on Rapa Nui/Easter Island, when we started to examine the details of the hydrology, we began to notice that freshwater access and statue location were tightly linked together. It wasnt obvious when walking around--with the water emerging at the coast during low tide, one doesnt necessarily see obvious indications of water. File photo - Statues at Anakena Beach, Easter Island, Chile. (Photo by Eric LAFFORGUE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Places without ahu/moai showed no freshwater, he added. The pattern was striking and surprising in how consistent it was. Researchers had already identified groundwater discharge in coastal areas as a key factor in the statues placement on Easter Islands coast. In the latest stage of the research, experts examined how the availability of freshwater in certain areas was linked to the methods and means of building the statues. EASTER ISLANDS ANCIENT CIVILIZATION WAS NOT DESTROYED BY WARFARE, EXPERTS SAY Around 900 statues, or moai, are dotted around Easter Island. Circa 1955: Two ancient statues of uncertain origin on Easter Island, in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Richard Harrington/Three Lions/Getty Images).
New information on COVID-19 indicates that the virus infects the human GI tract and is excreted into sewage. Our assessments indicate that there is a risk of waterborne transmission of the coronavirus, disinfection will kill the virus in water, but we should carefully examine our wastewater systems to ensure that there is minimal public exposure to untreated wastewater.
The government has said it wants to end armed conflict ... we have assisted in dialogue to examine the real will of the government and if at the end of the analysis we conclude that arms are no longer necessary, we are ready to consider giving them up.
Everyone around me smoked, everyone, every room in the house had an ashtray. I don't remember anyone at school telling me it was bad. I even remember going to the doctor for a regular checkup and he'd examine me with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. It was a way of life.
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- يفحصArabic
- разпитвам, преглеждам, изследвам, проучвам, изпитвамBulgarian
- vyšetřit, zkoušetCzech
- untersuchen, prüfen, befragenGerman
- analizar, examinar, auscultarSpanish
- معاینه کردنPersian
- kuulustella, tutkia, tarkastellaFinnish
- examinerFrench
- egzamineHaitian Creole
- քննել, զննելArmenian
- memeriksaIndonesian
- 検査, 調べる, 尋問, 診察Japanese
- 조사, 검사Korean
- sciscitorLatin
- examinerenDutch
- eksaminere, undersøkeNorwegian
- осмотреть, испытывать, испытать, осматриватьRussian
- fråga ut, observera, undersöka, undersSwedish
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