Usually means: Inspect or analyze something closely.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. examine: Merriam-Webster
  2. examine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. examine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. examine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. examine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Examine, examine: Wordnik
  7. examine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. examine: Wiktionary
  9. examine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. examine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. examine: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. examine: Dictionary.com
  13. examine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. examine: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Examine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Examine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. examine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. examine: FreeDictionary.org
  19. examine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. examine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. examine: Rhymezone
  22. examine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  23. examine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  24. examine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. examine: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. examine: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. examine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. examine: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. examine: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. examine: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (examine)

▸ verb:  To observe or inspect carefully or critically.
▸ verb:  To check the health or condition of something or someone.
▸ verb:  To determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination.
▸ verb:  To interrogate.
▸ noun:  (informal) An act of examining.

Similar:
prove, study, test, try out, try, essay, analyse, analyze, probe, evaluate, more...

Opposite:
ignore, overlook, neglect, disregard, bypass

Types:
study, research, look into, investigate, probe, explore, more...

Phrases:
examine closely, cross examine, re examine, examine thoroughly, examine critically, more...

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Similar:
prove, study, test, try out, try, essay, analyse, analyze, probe, evaluate, more...

Opposite:
ignore, overlook, neglect, disregard, bypass

Types:
study, research, look into, investigate, probe, explore, more...

Phrases:
examine closely, cross examine, re examine, examine thoroughly, examine critically, examine carefully, to examine carefully, to examine, closely examine, carefully examine, examine in detail, more...

Colors:
    gray,     blue,     white,     black,     silver, more...



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