Synonyms for Investigate:

v.
• analyze
- beat dead horse
- chewed over
- chewing over
- chews over
- figures out
- gat down brass tacks
- gat down to brass tacks
- get down brass tacks
- gets down brass tacks
- gets down to brass tacks
- getting down brass tacks
- getting down to brass tacks
- got down brass tacks
- got down to brass tacks
- gotten down brass tacks
- gotten down to brass tacks
- kicks around
- re hash
- re hashed
- re hashes
- re hashing
- re solve
- re solves
- re solving
- re-hash
- re-hashed
- re-hashes
- re-hashing
- re-solve
- re-solved
- re-solves
- re-solving
- sorts out
- talked game
- talking game
- talks game
- thinking through
- thinks through
• ask
- gave the third degree
- gave third degree
- give third degree
- gives the third degree
- gives third degree
- giving the third degree
- giving third degree
- hunted for
- hunting for
- hunts for
- pick brains
- pick one brains
- pick ones brains
- picked brains
- picked one brains
- picked one's brains
- picked ones brains
- picking brains
- picking one brains
- picking one's brains
- picking ones brains
- picks brains
- picks one brains
- picks one's brains
- picks ones brains
- pop question
- pried in to
- pried into
- pries in to
- pries into
- pry in to
- prying in to
- prying into
- puts screws to
- puts the screws to
- puts through the wringer
- puts through wringer
- putting screws to
- putting the screws to
- putting through the wringer
- putting through wringer
- re quest
- re quested
- re questing
- re quests
- re-quest
- re-quested
- re-questing
- re-quests
• assay
- sized up
- sizes up
• audit
- re ported
- re porting
- re view
- re viewed
- re viewing
- re views
- re-ported
- re-porting
- re-view
- re-viewed
- re-viewing
- re-views
- sate in
- sits in
- sitting in
• bird-dog
- birddog
• canvass
- checking over
- checks over
- de bate
- de bated
- de bates
- de bating
- de-bate
- de-bated
- de-bates
- de-bating
- electioneered
• challenge
- asking for
- asks for
- calling out
- ex act
- ex acted
- ex acting
- ex acts
- ex-act
- ex-acted
- ex-acting
- ex-acts
- face music
- faced down
- faced off
- faces down
- faces off
- facing down
- facing off
- flew face of
- flew in face of
- flew in the face of
- flew the face of
- flies face of
- flies in face of
- flies in the face of
- flies the face of
- fly face of
- fly the face of
- flying face of
- flying in face of
- flying in the face of
- flying the face of
- hanged in
- hangs in
- hung in
- insist up on
- insisted up on
- insisted upon
- insisting up on
- insisting upon
- insists up on
- insists upon
- invited competition
- invites competition
- inviting competition
- made a point of
- made a stand
- made point of
- made stand
- make point of
- make stand
- makes a point of
- makes a stand
- makes point of
- makes stand
- making a point of
- making a stand
- making point of
- making stand
- objected to
- objecting to
- objects to
- re claim
- re claimed
- re claiming
- re claims
- re quire
- re quired
- re quires
- re quiring
- re-claimed
- re-claiming
- re-claims
- re-quire
- re-quired
- re-quires
- re-quiring
- searches out
- standing up to
- stands to
- stands up to
- sticked it out
- sticking it out
- sticks it out
- stood to
- stuck it out
• check
- balanced account
- balances account
- balancing account
- enquired about
- enquires about
- enquiring about
- keeping account
- keeps account
- kept account
- looked see
- looking see
- looks over
- looks see
- makes sure
- making sure
- over look
- over looked
- over looks
- over-look
- over-looking
- over-looks
- pro bed
- pro-bed
- scouted out
- scouting out
- scouts out
- takes stock
- taking stock
- took stock
• comb
- beat bushes
- finecombed
- finecombing
- finecombs
- go through with fine tooth comb
- go through with finetooth comb
- goes through with fine tooth comb
- goes through with fine-tooth comb
- goes through with finetooth comb
- going through with fine tooth comb
- going through with fine-tooth comb
- going through with finetooth comb
- leaved no stone unturned
- leaves no stone unturned
- leaving no stone unturned
- left no stone unturned
- look high low
- looked high and low
- looked high low
- looking high and low
- looking high low
- looks high and low
- looks high low
- searched high heaven
- searches high heaven
- searching high heaven
- turning upside down
- turns inside out
- turns upside down
- went through with fine tooth comb
- went through with fine-tooth comb
- went through with finetooth comb
• communication
- investigate
• cover
- de tail
- de tailed
- de tailing
- de tails
- de-tail
- de-tailed
- de-tailing
- de-tails
- re counted
- re counting
- re counts
- re late
- re-counted
- re-counting
- re-counts
- re-lated
- telling of
- tells of
- writ up
- writes up
- writing up
- wrote up
• cross-examine
- asked pointed questions
- asking pointed questions
- asks pointed questions
- cross question
- cross questioned
- cross questioning
- cross questions
- cross-questions
- crossexamine
- crossquestion
- crossquestioned
- crossquestioning
- crossquestions
- go over with a fine tooth comb
- go over with a finetooth comb
- go over with fine tooth comb
- go over with fine-tooth comb
- go over with finetooth comb
- goes over with a fine tooth comb
- goes over with a fine-tooth comb
- goes over with a finetooth comb
- goes over with fine tooth comb
- goes over with fine-tooth comb
- goes over with finetooth comb
- going over with a fine tooth comb
- going over with a fine-tooth comb
- going over with a finetooth comb
- going over with fine tooth comb
- going over with fine-tooth comb
- going over with finetooth comb
- put hotseat
- put on hotseat
- put the hotseat
- puts hotseat
- puts on hotseat
- puts on the hotseat
- puts the hotseat
- putting hotseat
- putting on hotseat
- putting on the hotseat
- putting the hotseat
- third degreed
- third degreeing
- third-degreed
- third-degreeing
- third-degrees
- thirddegree
- thirddegreed
- thirddegreeing
- thirddegrees
- went over with a fine tooth comb
- went over with a fine-tooth comb
- went over with a finetooth comb
- went over with fine tooth comb
- went over with fine-tooth comb
- went over with finetooth comb
• debrief
- asked questions
- asks questions
- de brief
- de briefed
- de briefing
- de briefs
- de-brief
- de-briefed
- de-briefing
- de-briefs
- gathered intelligence
- gathering intelligence
- gathers intelligence
- inter view
- inter viewed
- inter viewing
- inter views
- inter-view
- inter-viewed
- inter-viewing
- inter-views
- works over
- wrought over
• delve
- ex cavate
- ex-cavate
- go in to
- gouging out
- jump in to
- jumped in to
- jumped into
- jumping in to
- jumping into
- jumps in to
- jumps into
- reallied get in to
- reallied get into
- reallies get in to
- reallies get into
- really get in to
- reallying get in to
- reallying get into
- scooped out
- scooping out
- scoops out
- un earth
- un earthed
- un earthing
- un earths
- un-earth
- un-earthed
- un-earthing
- un-earths
• diagnose
- de terminate
- de terminated
- de terminates
- de terminating
- de-terminate
- de-terminated
- de-terminates
- de-terminating
- determinated
- determinating
- diagnosticated
- re cognize
- re cognized
- re cognizes
- re cognizing
- re-cognized
- re-cognizing
• dig
- de press
- de pressed
- de presses
- de pressing
- de-press
- de-pressed
- de-presses
- de-pressing
- digged down
- digging down
- digs down
- dis cover
- dis covered
- dis covering
- dis covers
- dis-cover
- dis-covered
- dis-covering
- dis-covers
- dug down
- ex hume
- ex-hume
- forking out
- forks out
- pro duce
- pro duces
- pro-duces
- rooted out
- roots out
- un cover
- un covered
- un covering
- un covers
- un-cover
- un-covering
- un-covers
- under mined
- under mining
- under-mined
- under-mining
• dissect
- brake down
- breaks down
- broke down
- de compose
- de composed
- de composes
- de composing
- de compound
- de compounded
- de compounding
- de compounds
- de-compose
- de-composed
- de-composes
- de-composing
- de-compound
- de-compounded
- de-compounding
- de-compounds
- decompounds
- inquired about
- inquires about
- inquiring about
• enquire
- seek answer
- seeking an answer
- seeking answer
- seeks an answer
- seeks answer
- sought an answer
- sought answer
- want know
- wanted know
- wanted to know
- wanting know
- wanting to know
- wants know
- wants to know
• examine
- delve in to
- delved in to
- delved into
- delves in to
- delves into
- delving in to
- delving into
- dig in to
- digged in to
- digged into
- digging in to
- digging into
- digs in to
- digs into
- dug in to
- dug into
- pats down
- patted down
- patting down
- pored over
- pores over
- scrutinated
- scrutinates
- scrutinating
- search in to
- searched in to
- searched into
- searches in to
- searches into
- searching in to
- searching into
- takes stock of
- taking stock of
- took stock of
• experiment
- benchmark
• follow up
• go over
- re hearse
- re hearses
- re iterate
- re iterated
- re iterates
- re iterating
- re peat
- re peats
- re vise
- re vised
- re vising
- re-hearse
- re-hearses
- re-iterate
- re-iterated
- re-iterates
- re-iterating
- re-peat
- re-peats
- re-vise
- re-vised
- re-vising
- riffled through
- riffles through
- riffling through
- thumbed through
- thumbing through
- thumbs through
• hunt
- am lookout
- am on lookout
- am on the lookout
- am the lookout
- are on lookout
- are on the lookout
- are the lookout
- art lookout
- art the lookout
- be lookout
- be on lookout
- be the lookout
- being lookout
- being on lookout
- being on the lookout
- being the lookout
- casting about
- casts about
- is lookout
- is on lookout
- is on the lookout
- is the lookout
- look over hell
- looked all over hell
- looked over hell
- looking all over hell
- looking over hell
- looks all over hell
- looks over hell
- nosed around
- noses around
- nosing around
- scratched around
- scratches around
- scratching around
- tried find
- tries find
- tries to find
- try find
- trying find
- trying to find
- was lookout
- was on lookout
- was on the lookout
- was the lookout
- wast lookout
- wast on lookout
- wast on the lookout
- wast the lookout
- went after
- were lookout
- were on lookout
- were on the lookout
- were the lookout
- wert lookout
- wert on lookout
- wert on the lookout
- wert the lookout
• inquire
- feels out
- felt out
- hits up
- hitting up
- in quire
- in quired
- in quires
- in quiring
- in-quire
- in-quired
- in-quires
- in-quiring
- requested information
- requesting information
- requests information
- seeking information
- seeks information
- sought information
- test waters
- tested the waters
- tested waters
- testing the waters
- testing waters
- tests the waters
- tests waters
• inspect
- gave once over
- gave once-over
- gave onceover
- gave the once over
- gave the onceover
- give once over
- give once-over
- give onceover
- give the onceover
- gives once over
- gives once-over
- gives onceover
- gives the once over
- gives the once-over
- gives the onceover
- giving once over
- giving once-over
- giving onceover
- giving the once over
- giving the once-over
- giving the onceover
- in spect
- in spects
- in-spect
- in-spects
- kick tires
- kicked the tires
- kicked tires
- kicking the tires
- kicking tires
- kicks the tires
- kicks tires
- over saw
- over see
- over seeing
- over seen
- over sees
- over-saw
- over-seen
- over-sees
- super intend
- super intended
- super intending
- super intends
- super vise
- super vised
- super vising
- super-intend
- super-intended
- super-intending
- super-intends
- super-vise
- super-vised
• interrogate
- sweated out
- sweats out
• look into
- look in to
- made inquiry
- makes inquiry
• question
- interpolate
Other synonyms:

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case
eye

•

dip
sound

•

feel

•

glance
tail
traverse

•

proof
view

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Other relevant words:

• analyze

• cover

• diagnose

• enquire

• examine

• follow

bird-dog

• go over

riffle through
thumb through

• go through

• inspect

go the rounds

• look into

• question

• search

• see

• take on

• Other relevant words (noun):

process

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

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Equivalence
- Coordinating conjunction
  examine.
- Preposition or subordinating conjunction
  examine.
- Adjective
  examine, explore, investigating.
- Proper noun, singular
  examine, investigating, Investigated, investigates.
- Noun, singular or mass
  examine.
- Verb, past tense
  examine.
- Verb, non-3rd person singular present
  examine, explore.
- Verb, base form
  examine.
Independent
- Coordinating conjunction
  assess, explore.
- Preposition or subordinating conjunction
  explore.
- Proper noun, singular
  explore, Inquiries, Records, makes, probes.
- Noun, plural
  Inquiries, Investigators.
- Noun, singular or mass
  explore.
- Verb, past tense
  addressed, enrolled, explore, studied, Assessed, Dealt, Discussed, Envisaged, Looked.
- Verb, non-3rd person singular present
  assess, scrutinize.
- Verb, base form
  assess, clarify, delineate, detect, discover, educate, elucidate, enlighten, enquire, explain, exploit, explore, handle, illuminate, inform, initiate, lay, navigate, prosecute, re-examine, reconsider, revisit, scrutinise, scrutinize, trace, uncover, undertake, troubleshoot.
Other Related
- Adjective
  studying.
- Proper noun, singular
  studying, Surveys, researching.
- Noun, singular or mass
  studying, researching.
- Verb, base form
  achieve, appraise, instruct, interrogate.

What are the hypernyms for Investigate?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

hypernyms for investigate (as verbs)
- communication
  experiment, examine, search, probe, research, explore.

What are the hyponyms for Investigate?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for investigate (as verbs)
- communication
  analyse, study, canvass, examine, analyze.

What are the opposite words for investigate?

Investigate is the process of scrutinizing a situation or a case to find specific information or evidence. Antonyms for the word "investigate" include overlook, neglect, disregard, ignore, and dismiss. Overlook means to fail to notice or consider something important. Neglect means to overlook or fail to take proper care of something or someone. Disregard means to pay no attention to something or someone. Ignore means to intentionally not pay attention or attend to something or someone. Lastly, dismiss means to reject or disregard something as unimportant. By knowing these antonyms, we can understand the importance of investigating and not ignoring or neglecting specific information or evidence.

What are the antonyms for Investigate?

v.
• check into thoroughly
- answer
- forget
- ignore
- leave alone
- neglect
- overlook
- reply

Usage examples for Investigate

I say in all probability, for I myself do not know and now cannot satisfy myself upon that point, though I turned from the Karamojo Mountains to investigate its source.

"In Desert and Wilderness"

Henryk Sienkiewicz

No man would believe the letters I've had to read and answer, the documents to examine, the deeds to compare, the papers to investigate-" "Is the business settled, then-or in train of settlement?"

"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"

Charles James Lever

After she had eaten her breakfast in the morning she went out to investigate.

"Lonesome Land"

B. M. Bower

Famous quotes with Investigate

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

Peter Abelard
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

Leon Battista Alberti
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Neil Armstrong
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Marcus Aurelius
The American people depend on these federal employees to process, investigate, and adjudicate applications for immigration rights and benefits in a timely and thorough manner.

Joe Baca

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