- Synonyms: inspect, examine, analyze, study
- Antonyms: ignore
- Related words: scrutiny, inscrutable
- Origin: 1415 from the Latin word scrutari meaning "to examine, search" (as in through the trash), which comes from the word scruta meaning "trash, rags." The first time this word was recorded as being used to mean "close examination" was in 1604.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
scrutinize - (v.): to examine something closely and carefully
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3 comments:
Jaycee says...
It was hard to scruntinize the drawings we did in math!
Ashaylah says...
The picture is just like what we did in math today. We already went over the 6 diffrent things in th picture!!!
madison says that her mom scrutinizes her home work to make shur it's done right.
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