investigate

[ɪnˈvestɪɡeɪt]

Definition:
1. To carefully examine the facts of a situation, an event, a crime, etc. to find out the truth about it or how it happened.
2. To try to find out information about sb's character, activities, etc.
3. To find out information and facts about a subject or problem by study or research.

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Use 'investigate' in a sentence:

1. You have to investigate into this affair.
2. When they return they do a "waggle dance" for their spot, and other scouts will then fly off and investigate it.
3. They describe, for example, the Security Council's power to investigate and mediate disputes.
4. Police are still investigating how the accident happened.
5. We should not jump to conclusions. Let's investigate first.
6. Scouts fly off to investigate multiple sites.
7. Journalists were given the freedom to visit, investigate, and report without constraint.
8. The crime is presently being investigated by the police.
9. "We will do the right thing and do what we have to do to investigate crimes wherever they exist," claimed the police officer in chief.
10. The article offers some references to establishing investigate procedure.
11. I need to investigate their suggestions.
12. The FBI has been called in to investigate.
13. The Competition Commission is now to investigate whether the British Airports Authority needs to sell off some of its assets.
14. These are some of the questions that you investigate when you study English.
15. I mean something you'd like to investigate.
16. Now we need to begin to investigate the reasons why you think it's the right thing to do.
17. Police are investigating the disappearance of a young woman.
18. The newspapers have shied away from investigating the story.
19. The manager asked him to hold on while he investigated.
20. The faculty remain doubtful that their work as educators can be measured by a "learning outcome" such as a graduate's ability to investigate and reason.
21. Otherwise, academics will continue to think dangerously alike, increasingly detached from the societies which they study, investigate and criticise.
22. Of course, we'll investigate not just whether the reaction will occur, but how fast it occurs, which is really important.
23. Luckily, Perkin's scientific training and nature prompted him to investigate the substance further.
24. Yuka Sasaki and her colleagues at Brown University set out to investigate the origins of this effect.
25. The two officers were being investigated by the director of public prosecutions.
26. Three, Investigate organisation together with psychology in the command;
27. It is only fairly recently that historians have begun to investigate the question.
28. In 1991 the United States Congress asked NASA to investigate the hazard posed today by large impacts on Earth.
29. We have to investigate why she was not happy with her husband.
30. Police are investigating the disappearance from council offices of confidential files.
31. An objective of this particular cruise was to investigate the floor of the Mediterranean and to resolve questions about its geologic history.
32. This is not the first time he has been investigated by the police for fraud.
33. The police officer was suspended while the complaint was investigated.
34. She's been banned from leaving Greece while the allegations are investigated.
35. Police roped off the street to investigate the accident.
36. 25 officers were investigated following allegations of improper conduct during the murder inquiry.
37. The bill creates an oversight board with the authority to investigate and punish accounting firms.
38. The two sides agreed to set up a commission to investigate claims.
39. A database administrator can further investigate these transactions to isolate the problem using of the domain expert capabilities that OPM EE offers.
40. Mr Sharp would not comment on the nature of the issues being investigated.
41. Police are investigating the theft of computers from the company's offices.
42. The health authorities are investigating the problem.
43. They should adopt a more imaginative approach and investigate alternative uses for their property.
44. We should investigate what happened, what went wrong.
45. Police are investigating possible links between the murders.
46. The police decided to investigate further.
47. He felt impelled to investigate further.
48. Cornell University offers a course that investigates how language relates to particular cultural codes.
49. An independent body has been set up to investigate the affair.
50. The research investigates how foreign speakers gain fluency.
51. Police should be asked to investigate so that the guilty can be brought to book soon.
52. The government is determined to spare no effort in investigating this case thoroughly.
53. He said he hoped the Swiss authorities would investigate the case thoroughly and without prejudice.
54. We were asked to investigate the alleged inconsistencies in his evidence.