Usually means: Examine systematically to discover facts.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. investigate: Merriam-Webster
  2. investigate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. investigate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. investigate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. investigate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Investigate, investigate: Wordnik
  7. investigate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. investigate: Wiktionary
  9. investigate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. investigate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. investigate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. investigate: Dictionary.com
  13. investigate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Investigate (magazine): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Investigate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. investigate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. investigate: Rhymezone
  18. investigate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. investigate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. investigate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. investigate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. investigate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. investigate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (investigate)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To inquire into or study in order to ascertain facts or information.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To examine, look into, or scrutinize in order to discover something hidden or secret.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To conduct an inquiry or examination.

Similar:
look into, examine, evaluate, reinvestigate, assess, explore, analyze, elucidate, uncover, ascertain, more...

Opposite:
ignore, overlook, neglect, disregard, bypass

Types:
police, FBI, CIA, Interpol, Scotland Yard, CSI, NBI, CID, NCIS, FIB, more...

Phrases:
invest, then investigate, invest then investigate, then investigate invest, Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, to investigate, more...

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Similar:
look into, examine, evaluate, reinvestigate, assess, explore, analyze, elucidate, uncover, ascertain, more...

Opposite:
ignore, overlook, neglect, disregard, bypass

Types:
police, FBI, CIA, Interpol, Scotland Yard, CSI, NBI, CID, NCIS, FIB, more...

Phrases:
invest, then investigate, invest then investigate, then investigate invest, Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, to investigate, investigate scientifically, to investigate or force to open, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark green,     maroon,     charcoal, more...



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