Usually means: Formal investigation into cause of death.
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  1. inquest: Merriam-Webster
  2. inquest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inquest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inquest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inquest: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inquest, inquest: Wordnik
  7. inquest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inquest: Wiktionary
  9. inquest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inquest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inquest: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inquest: Dictionary.com
  13. inquest: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. inquest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Inquest (England and Wales), Inquest (charity), Inquest (disambiguation), Inquest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Inquest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. inquest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. inquest: Rhymezone
  19. inquest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. inquest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. inquest: FreeDictionary.org
  22. inquest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. inquest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. inquest: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. inquest: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. inquest: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. inquest: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. inquest: Legal dictionary
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  10. Death and Funeral Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inquest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. inquest: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. inquest: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (inquest)

▸ noun:  A formal investigation, often held before a jury, especially one into the cause of a death
▸ noun:  An inquiry, typically into an undesired outcome
▸ noun:  The jury hearing such an inquiry, and the result of the inquiry
▸ noun:  (rare, obsolete) enquiry; quest; search

Similar:
inquisition, verdict, interrogation, assize, enquiry, inquiry, investigation, inquiring, issue, exquisition, more...

Opposite:
verdict, ruling, decision, judgment

Phrases:
grand inquest, coroners inquest, inquest of office, coroner's inquest, jury of inquest, more...

Adjectives:
grand, great, such, domesday, second, first, formal, subsequent, official, public, preliminary

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Similar:
inquisition, verdict, interrogation, assize, enquiry, inquiry, investigation, inquiring, issue, exquisition, more...

Opposite:
verdict, ruling, decision, judgment

Phrases:
grand inquest, coroners inquest, inquest of office, coroner's inquest, jury of inquest, Ashley Smith inquest, Da Vinci's Inquest, more...

Adjectives:
grand, great, such, domesday, second, first, formal, subsequent, official, public, preliminary

Colors:
    charcoal,     graphite,     pewter,     gunmetal,     smoke, more...



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