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Definition of examine : 1. To interrogate as in a judicial proceeding; to try or test by question; as, to examine a witness in order to elicit testimony, a student to test his qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc.
2. To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection of particulars for the purpose of obtaining a fuller insight into the subject of examination, as a material substance, a fact, a reason, a cause, the truth of a statement; to inquire or search into; to explore; as, to examine a mineral; to examine a ship to know whether she is seaworthy; to examine a proposition, theory, or question.

Synonyms:

learn, turn over, control, meditate, escort, leaven, psychoanalyze, take in, ransack, shew, image, ascertain, attend, experiment, visualise, find, finger, envision, realise, reexamine, poke into, test, interpret, try out, bear witness, feel out, attempt, audit, realize, weigh, dig into, read, view, hit the books, essay, look over, render, screen, go behind, fancy, determine, get word, understand, sample, go out, discover, figure, demonstrate, take, audition, prove, raise, criticize, date, case, reconnoiter, see to it, ensure, insure, strain, assure, check up on, run across, go into, break down, judge, experience, traverse, turn out, pick up, show, stress, research, reckon, see about, take apart, testify, visit, vet, run into, cross-examine, evidence, measure, con, construe, search, canvas, get wind, go through, look into, adjudicate, look, watch, get a line, go over, catch, try on, visualize, witness, sound out, monitor, encounter, smell out, regard, thresh out, find out, rise, establish, try, taste, go steady, see, hear, turn up, fathom, take care, meet, track down, picture, project, psychoanalyse, come across, check out, sit on, analyse, size up

assay, dissect, anatomize, analyze, sift, winnow, study

delve, interrogate, poll, catechize, inquire, survey, query, challenge, canvass, investigate, seek, contemplate, dispute, ask, debate, question, probe, quiz, interpolate, explore

observe, check, scan, peruse, review, scrutinize, consider, inspect, verify

Usage examples:

• Mr. Hobart took it from Joe's hand to examine it.
• " Kindly just examine the cabinet and the whole room first, gentlemen. - "The Necromancers", Robert Hugh Benson.
• Several times each stopped to examine what he had discovered in the pockets of a coat he had found. - "The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine", Ross Kay.