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What is the verb for scrutiny?

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scrutinise
  1. (transitive) To examine something with great care.
  2. (transitive) To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.
  3. Examples:
    1. “He said in cases of defence of amnesia or automatism, the court had to carefully scrutinise all evidence.”
      “The insurance company might allow an independent monitor to scrutinise the demutualisation process on behalf of policyholders.”
      “It insists no one will be inappropriately housed by 2006 and a new inspectorate will scrutinise institutions.”
scrutinize
  1. (transitive) To examine something with great care.
  2. (transitive) To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The first earthbound applications of this electronic wizardry will be airport scanners that scrutinize passengers' bags.”
      “Between rallies of intense project chatter, they paused to scrutinize me, murmuring and smirking like schoolboys at a junior high dance.”
      “I don't scrutinize my stats page to see from where and with what link people are reading my blog.”
scrutineer
  1. (transitive) To scrutinise; to thoroughly check that an election is being run fairly, or that a vehicle meets the rules of a competition, etc.
scrutiny
  1. (obsolete, rare) To scrutinize.
scrutineers
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scrutineer
scrutinises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scrutinise
  2. Examples:
    1. “Therefore, the Legislative branch checks and scrutinises the work done by the Executive branch.”
      “Tradition too is an important element, more so when one scrutinises the fundamentals of the game.”
      “On his days off, he scrutinises the children in the playground opposite his apartment and shadows a little girl through the local park.”
scrutinizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scrutinize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In this tight economy, the public scrutinizes art purchases more closely than ever.”
      “The pregnant person scrutinizes every bellyache and back twinge to see if it's a sign of the impending big event.”
      “This time he scrutinizes the sacrifices of warrior grunts rather than political wonks and politicians.”
scrutinizeth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scrutinize
scrutinizest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of scrutinize
scrutinised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of scrutinise
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Where life is at stake the evidence must be scrutinised with especial care.”
      “He believes that, in general, plans of this nature in built-up areas should be doubly scrutinised.”
      “The whole project was closely scrutinised by police after the fraud squad were called in.”
scrutinized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of scrutinize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The water footprint of buildings, communities, and cities is being scrutinized as a measure of a project's sustainability.”
      “Our research suggests that agricultural policy must be scrutinized carefully for potential local impacts on agribusinesses.”
      “I scrutinized the reflection of my stilled body, trying to halt the rise and fall of my belly in order to appear corpselike.”
scrutineered
  1. simple past tense and past participle of scrutineer
scrutinied
  1. simple past tense and past participle of scrutiny
scrutinising
  1. present participle of scrutinise
  2. Examples:
    1. “The orbiter spent eight years scrutinising the whole Jovian system and making multiple fly-bys of the four main moons.”
      “There's a lot of black money involved in match-fixing activities and we're scrutinising if this has a connection with the underworld.”
      “This was going on for some months and by scrutinising itemised bills we got solid evidence.”
scrutinizing
  1. present participle of scrutinize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Breathless, I gingerly picked up the two pieces of jewelry, scrutinizing them thoroughly.”
      “The importance of scrutinizing food labels to determine sources of eggs, egg derivatives, and egg substitutes can't be stressed enough.”
      “If tens of thousands of programmers are scrutinizing the country's voting software, it's highly unlikely a serious bug will go uncaught.”
scrutineering
  1. present participle of scrutineer
scrutinying
  1. present participle of scrutiny
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