investigateverb [ T ]
uk/ɪnˈves.tɪ.ɡeɪt/us/ɪnˈves.tə.ɡeɪt/B2 to examine a crime, problem, statement, etc. carefully, especially to discover the truth:
Police are investigating allegations of corruption involving senior executives.
[ + question word ] We are of course investigating how an error like this could have occurred.
More examples
- Scotland Yard have been called in to investigate the murder.
- The remit of this official inquiry is to investigate the reasons for the accident.
- The government set up a commission to investigate the problem of inner city violence.
- The UN is investigating new methods of population control .
- I wonder what that noise was in the kitchen - I'd better go and investigate.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Analysing and evaluating
- analyse
- analyser
- analyst
- analytical
- analyze
- critical
- go through sth
- have the measure of sb/sth idiom
- inspect
- inspection
- interpretive
- measure
- proof
- set great, little, etc. store by sth idiom
- sift
- sit
- sit in judgment on/over sb idiom
- size sth/sb up
- store
- survey
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