English English Dictionary

examine in English:

1. scrutinize

The evidence was carefully scrutinized.

He scrutinized the men's faces carefully/closely, trying to work out who was lying.

I have to scrutinize the data.

She scrutinized the document and claimed that it was a fake

English word "examine"(scrutinize) occurs in sets:

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2. go over

I think we should go over your files. / We'll go over the contract to sign on Thursday.

Could you go over this report and correct any mistakes?

Let us go over all the facts of the case again very carefully and see if we can't discover where we are making a mistake.

You should go over your homework.

to go over the details

Remember to go over your essay to check for grammar and spelling mistakes

I'll go over the details again. We're meeting on Friday by the fountain, ok?

The bank manager wants to go over the details of the contract before he approves it.

I always go over my work to look for mistakes.

Let me go over what we have agreed

You will learn the new vocabulary if you go over word lists every now and then.

Sue’s going to help me go over my lines for the play.

I don't understand. Could you go over that again?

With my getting back so late, we haven't had time to go over timetables, and school starts on Monday

I think we should go over our plan again before we tell the managing director.

English word "examine"(go over) occurs in sets:

Phrasal verbs

3. look over

I look over dokuments.

Make sure you look over the contract very carefully before you sign it.

I look over at you and see sunshine, and look back at myself and see rain.

Man holding his son up to look over a fence.

English word "examine"(look over) occurs in sets:

phrasal verbs
Phrasal verbs

4. to look closely at something

English word "examine"(to look closely at something) occurs in sets:

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5. CHECK something OUT

English word "examine"(CHECK something OUT) occurs in sets:

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6. GO OVER something

7. look carefully

8. examiner

The applicant impressed the examiner favorably.

Cross out any words that you do not wish the examiner to read.

9. go through

She doesn't understand what I go through. / I can't go through this all again.

Teenagers often go through a lot of difficult times.

go through the gate over there

Can we go through this report again?

I’d like to go through the homework.

When the people told the government of BC that they wanted to cancel the HST, it took a year for the change to go through.

I'll go through these reports quickly to see if there are no mistakes.

you must go through the question over and over until you grasp thoroughly what the question requires of you when answering.

10. to consider or study an idea

11. analyse

You need to analyse the topic first. They are still analysing the data. Let's analyze the sales figures for the last two months.

First analyse the problem and then decide how to solve it.

Researchers analysed the purchases of 6,300 households.

It takes a lot longer to analyse all the answers!

English word "examine"(analyse) occurs in sets:

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12. look round

Let's look round the town today.

When I went to Berlin, I had only three hours to look round.

13. check

Check, please.

In the U.S., it is common for people to write a check instead of paying cash.

I check off each task on my list as soon as I complete it.

When it is appraised, in order to check the authenticity and state of preservation of the painting, the real thing has to be borrowed from its owner.

Christopher Columbus has never, ever needed a native check.

The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.

What happened to your nose? "When I was backing my car up I went to check behind me, convinced that the car window was open, and bashed my face into it!"

Therefore I'm giving up for now. I'll still try to check out other possibilities but ... I think hopes are slim.

If I were invisible for 24 hours, I would fill in lots of checks.

Hope is when you suddenly run to the kitchen like a mad man to check if the empty chocolate cookie box you just finished an hour ago is magically full again.

When I got worried and went to check on him, it looked like he'd barricaded himself in the department's toilet and wasn't coming out.

Quiet! Everybody stay where they are, there will now be a possessions check.

Location check: The parties involved themselves or their attendants should look over the place for the miai meeting in advance.

When Yoko and I heard the sirens stop nearby, we quickly decided to go check it out.

English word "examine"(check) occurs in sets:

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