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| Main Entry: |
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | check, research |
| Synonyms: | audit, check out, delve into, dig, examine, explore, follow up, go into, inquire, inspect, investigate, look over, make inquiry, probe, prospect, scrutinize, sift, study |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore |
| Main Entry: | dig |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | investigate; discover |
| Synonyms: | bring to light, come across, come up with, delve, dig down, expose, extricate, find, go into, inquire, look into, probe, prospect, research, retrieve, root, search, search high and low, shake down, sift, turn inside out, turn upside down, uncover, unearth |
| Main Entry: | enquire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask about |
| Synonyms: | analyze, check, examine, explore, go over, inquire, inspect, investigate, look into, probe, pry, query, question, scrutinize, search, seek, seek an answer, want to know |
| Main Entry: | estimate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | guess, try to value |
| Synonyms: | account, appraise, assay, assess, believe, budget, calculate roughly, cast, cipher, class, classify, compute, conjecture, consider, count, decide, deduce, determine, enumerate, evaluate, examine, expect, figure, form opinion, gauge, guess, guesstimate, judge, look into, look upon, number, outline, plan, predict, prophesy, rank, rate, reason, reckon, regard, run over, scheme, set a figure, size up, sum, suppose, surmise, suspect, tax, think, think through |
| Notes: | estimate implies a calculation has been performed and it is on that basis that a judgment or valuation is being made, while estimation implies that an on-the-spot evaluation is being performed and that it is an opinion based on that evaluation; an estimate conveys a more reasoned or impersonal judgment than an estimation |
| Main Entry: | explore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | investigate; survey |
| Synonyms: | analyze, burrow, delve into, dig into, examine, go into, have a look, hunt, inquire into, inspect, leave no stone unturned, look into, probe, prospect, question, reconnoitre, research, scout, scrutinize, search, seek, sift, test, tour, travel, traverse, try, turn inside out |
| Main Entry: | follow up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make inquiries |
| Synonyms: | check out, find out about, investigate, look into, make sure, pursue |
| Antonyms: | avoid, dodge, forget |
| Main Entry: | go into |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | investigate |
| Synonyms: | analyze, consider, delve into, dig into, dig*, discuss, examine, explore, inquire, look into, probe, prospect, pursue, review, scrutinize, sift, study |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | investigate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | check into thoroughly |
| Synonyms: | be all ears, bug, case*, check out, check over, check up, consider, delve, dig, examine, explore, eyeball, feel out, frisk, give the once over, go into, inquire, inquisite, inspect, interrogate, listen in, look into, look over, look-see, make inquiry, muckrake, nose around, poke, probe, prospect, pry, put to the test, question, read, reconnoiter, research, review, run down, scout, scrutinize, search, sift, spy, stake out, study, tap, wiretap |
| Antonyms: | ignore |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | probe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explore, investigate |
| Synonyms: | ask, catechize, check, check out, check over, check up, delve into, dig, examine, eye, feel around, feel out, go into, inquire, interrogate, look into, look-see, penetrate, pierce, poke, prod, prospect, put out a feeler, query, quiz, scrutinize, search, sift, sound, sound out, study, test, test the waters, verify |
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