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investigate English

Meaning investigate meaning

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investigate Verb

— If you investigate a problem, you get information about it and you think carefully about the information, usually to find an answer. We won't know what happened until it is more thoroughly investigated. Police investigated 169 complaints about noise between December and January. Researchers continue to investigate new ways of finding lies. Your child's family doctor should investigate whether there may be a sleep problem. More work is needed to investigate other .

investigate

— verb investigate scientifically Let's investigate the syntax of Chinese — verb (= inquire, enquire) conduct an inquiry or investigation of The district attorney's office investigated reports of possible irregularities inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady

Synonyms investigate synonyms

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investigate English » English

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Topics investigate topics

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Study
Social behavior Law Trial

Investigate a crime
Social behavior Government Government functions

Police

Conjugation investigate conjugation

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investigate · verb

Examples investigate examples

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Simple sentences

The farmer that lived nearby came to investigate.
To investigate the incident would take us at least three weeks.
A committee has been set up to investigate the problem.
They are going to investigate the affair.
Investigate thoroughly the bushes where the enemy may be hiding.
I'm going to investigate this case.
I propose to investigate the vegetation of the island in great detail.
They investigate whether the fingerprints found on the door were the thief's.
The police is trying to investigate the crime.
Investigate the cause of it.
We'll investigate the matter.
The police will investigate that case.
It's my business to investigate such things.
He works at a scientific institute where linguists, literature scholars, historians, sociologists, economists, and other scholars investigate everything that has to do with gnomes.
Let's investigate.
We will investigate the problem and deal with it as we see fit.
The police promised to investigate the matter.

Movie subtitles

We cannot trust the Coast Guard to investigate itself.
I'm going to investigate.
Investigate what?
What's to investigate?
At dawn Hutter set out to investigate the horrors of the previous nights.
Kravtsov decided to investigate on his own the case of the lost sugar.
We're only trying to investigate matters, miss.
There's nothing to investigate.
There's something down here that I have to investigate. and Jerry thinks that I.
What are you doing to investigate it?
Tell him investigate.
Well, let's investigate.
Well, hadn't we better investigate?
I ought to investigate.
Anyhow, we'll investigate it.
However, to please her, I thought you might investigate the matter quietly.
They asked us to investigate a case and we did!
Always investigate.
Let's investigate.
If you'd give me a chance to investigate.
Investigate?
And however much I investigate, I'll never find the culprit.
We'll investigate later.
Captain Curtis has been sent from Washington. To investigate us.
But I've been sent here to investigate an accident.
She sent Hilda to investigate the fire.
Once Wheaton tells his story and they investigate your record, 47 marshals will be here and you'II end up in prison.
The Senate will investigate, naturally, but I don't think we have to fear that.
Investigate it.
I say. even so, there's also a need to re-investigate properly, there must be no mistakes. But even if it's the United States, there's also no reason to suddenly do this!
It has no authority to arrest humans but it can investigate, so I think it'd be useful to you.
Investigate holdup at 2411 Roxbury Hills Drive.
Yes, but they investigate the-these swindles.
No, Alex and I want to investigate Black Island and get acquainted with the spooks.
Well investigate some place else then!

News and current affairs

Many citizens believe, rightly, that their mass media are failing to investigate and document abuses.
And then those who bought these mortgages never bothered to investigate their underlying value - a spectacular abdication of managerial responsibility.
Medical centers and clinics would be expected to investigate the cause of ailments in a large number of their patients, even in cases where the symptoms seem common.
Chen asked him to investigate abuses against him and his family.
The next step is to investigate how efficient this treatment is in human patients.
It is also why a free press that reports these problems, congressional hearings that investigate them, and a recent set of Supreme Court decisions that give detainees legal recourse are also so important.
But the government refused to investigate and did nothing with the information.
The European Union established a scientific committee to investigate animal-welfare issues on farms, and the committee recommended banning the battery cage, along with some other forms of close confinement of pigs and calves.
None of us are surprised that the police are unwilling to investigate my car's explosion.
It has jurisdiction only insofar as national governments fail to investigate and, if appropriate, prosecute a case in good faith.
There is much speculation about the reasoning behind the government's decisions in May to dismiss the pro-Hezbollah chief of airport security and investigate Hezbollah's private telecommunications network, which sparked the confrontations.
To be sure, in the laboratory, scientists use animals in controlled experimental conditions to investigate the workings of toxic agents.
The raid - by heavily armed and masked men! - was allegedly carried out to investigate unlawful actions by the company's personnel.
Other bodies want to revive the idea of creating an international tribunal to investigate war crimes in Chechnya.
That decision demonstrated, for the first time, that there was an institution that could investigate and prosecute the most serious international crimes regardless of where they occur.
Their crime was to investigate cases of corruption by local government officials that were linked to the deaths of tens of thousands of students in the Sichuan earthquake of May 2008.
Indeed, pharmaceutical companies have already begun to investigate other NMDA-receptor antagonists, together with drugs that act on a different part of the glutamate system, as possible treatments for depression.
Indeed, including aggression would have required me to investigate and potentially prosecute the decision to go to war - inherently a profoundly political decision.
The Uppsala police force that is now investigating Assange either failed to or refused to investigate effectively the sadistic rapist with whom they worked every day.
Why investigate and report this scandal?
Central authorities did not investigate the Linyi abuses until news of the harassment of Chen Guangcheng - and his abduction with the help of Beijing police - spread into international media.
But a vulnerable economy dependent on external credit has only helped increase pressure on Sri Lanka to investigate allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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