Synonyms for inspect
ɪnˈspɛktin·spect

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1. inspect

   To see is simply to become conscious of an object of vision; to look is to make a conscious and direct endeavor to see. To behold is to fix the sight and the mind with distinctness and consideration upon something that has come to be clearly before the eyes. We may look without seeing, as in pitch-darkness, and we may see without looking, as in case of a flash of lightning. To gaze is to look intently, long, and steadily upon an object. To glance is to look casually or momentarily. To stare is to look with a fixed intensity such as is the effect of surprise, alarm, or rudeness. To scan is to look at minutely, to note every visible feature. To inspect is to go below the surface, uncover, study item by item. View and survey are comprehensive, survey expressing the greater exactness of measurement or estimate. Watch brings in the element of time and often of wariness; we watch for a movement or change, a signal, the approach of an enemy, etc. Compare APPEAR.

   Synonyms:
   behold, contemplate, descry, discern, gaze, glance, look, regard, scan, see, stare, survey, view, watch

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1. inspect

   Synonyms:
   scrutinize, examine, investigate, search, overhaul, look into, supervise

   Antonyms:
   overlook, connive, dismiss, glance, misobserve, misinvestigate, pretermit

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1. inspectverb

   look over carefully

   "Please inspect your father's will carefully"

   Synonyms:
   scrutinize, scrutinise, audit, visit

2. visit, inspectverb

   come to see in an official or professional capacity

   "The governor visited the prison"; "The grant administrator visited the laboratory"

   Synonyms:
   confab, natter, bring down, impose, claver, chat, call in, scrutinize, confabulate, chew the fat, jaw, chatter, chit-chat, audit, visit, gossip, call, chitchat, scrutinise, inflict, travel to, shoot the breeze, chaffer, see

3. audit, scrutinize, scrutinise, inspectverb

   examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification

   "audit accounts and tax returns"

   Synonyms:
   audit, scrutinise, take stock, size up, scrutinize, visit

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1. • Examine

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1. inspectverb

   Synonyms:
   examine, scrutinize, investigate, look into, pry into

2. inspectverb

   Synonyms:
   superintend, oversee

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1. inspectverb

   Synonyms:
   examine

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1. List of paraphrases for "inspect":

   check, inspecting, inspected, review, inspection, verify, revise, inspectorate

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1. Worcester City Manager Edward Augustus:

   Our inspectional services department will inspect the facility to make sure that the cleaning was done in compliance with our guidelines.

2. Li Keqiang:

   At present our country has 12,000 drug wholesalers, 5,000 production firms and more than 400,000 drug retailers. Regulatory targets are many, but there are few people on the ground, making regulation difficult, there aren't even 500 people with the aptitude to inspect drugs. There are dead spaces and blind zones for regulation and inspection.

3. Janice Okubo:

   It's important to appropriately store, inspect, and wash produce, especially leafy greens.

4. Davis Instagram:

   All were doing is demanding that our public officialsaudit the Dominon machines, audit the ballots. Theres a way to do it, we can solve this in two days, if this was a legitimate election then let us inspect it and if Biden won lets all go on with our lives, but you know what I dont think that happened.

5. Ali Mottahari:

   The only work of the Assembly of Experts should not be to elect the Leader, god willing, the leader of the revolution will be alive for many years. But they need to do their own work, to enquire and probe and inspect.