English Explanatory Dictionary

scrute

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To examine (something) carefully; to scrutinize.

Word forms

scrute scrutes scruting scruted

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scrūtor, scrūtārī (“to search carefully; to seek for”). Now often reanalyzed from inscrutable.

Related words

scrutator scrutinate scrutinize
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