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scrutinate

scrutinate verb: to scrutinize.

Verb

scrutinate (third-person singular simple present scrutinates, present participle scrutinating, simple past and past participle scrutinated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To scrutinize.

Forms of scrutinate

third-person singular presentscrutinates
present participlescrutinating
past participlescrutinated
pastscrutinated

Questions about scrutinate

What does scrutinate mean?
Scrutinate means to scrutinize.
What part of speech is scrutinate?
Scrutinate is a verb.
What is the past tense of scrutinate?
The past tense of scrutinate is scrutinated.

Words near scrutinate in the dictionary

  1. scrutator
  2. scrutators
  3. scrute
  4. scruted
  5. scrutes
  6. scrutinate
  7. scrutinated
  8. scrutinates
  9. scrutinating
  10. scrutinee
  11. scrutineer

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