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scrutinise

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Verb1.scrutinise - to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail; "he scrutinized his likeness in the mirror"
scrutinize, size up, take stock
examine, see - observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect; "The customs agent examined the baggage"; "I must see your passport before you can enter the country"
2.scrutinise - examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification; "audit accounts and tax returns"
audit, scrutinize, inspect
analyse, analyze, examine, study, canvass, canvas - consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives"


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Teachers, you must watch her: keep your eyes on her movements, weigh well her words, scrutinise her actions, punish her body to save her soul: if, indeed, such salvation be possible, for (my tongue falters while I tell it) this girl, this child, the native of a Christian land, worse than many a little heathen who says its prayers to Brahma and kneels before Juggernaut--this girl is--a liar
Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
Secrets that few would like to scrutinise were bred and hidden in mountains of unseemly rags, masses of corrupted fat, and sepulchres of bones.
A Christmas Carol by Dickens, Charles View in context
When it became painful to look any longer, the great size of the view seeming to enlarge her eyes beyond their natural limit, she looked at the ground; it pleased her to scrutinise this inch of the soil of South America so minutely that she noticed every grain of earth and made it into a world where she was endowed with the supreme power.
The Voyage Out by Woolf, Virginia View in context
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