investigate
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- (transitive & intransitive) If you investigate a problem, you get information about it and you think carefully about the information, usually to find an answer.
- We won't know what happened until it is more thoroughly investigated.
- Police investigated 169 complaints about noise between December and January.
- Researchers continue to investigate new ways of finding lies.
- Your child's family doctor should investigate whether there may be a sleep problem.
- More work is needed to investigate other possibilities.