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scrutinise

/ˈskɹuːtɪnaɪz/

scrutinise verb: to examine something with great care.

Verb

scrutinise (third-person singular simple present scrutinises, present participle scrutinising, simple past and past participle scrutinised)

  1. (UK, transitive) To examine something with great care.
    • Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 230b
    • Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is...2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023
  2. (UK, transitive) To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.

scrutinise meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

scrutinise in Tamil

கூர்ந்தாய்தல், நுண்ணாய்தல்

scrutinise in Urdu

آزمانا

scrutinise in Kannada

ನಿಟ್ಟಿಸು

Examples of scrutinise in a sentence

  • Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023:
  • But few MPs could claim to have followed and scrutinised Government transport policy to the extent that she has over the past decade.2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in RAIL, page 31:
  • Independent of government and the civil service, the NAO [National Audit Office] scrutinises public spending for Parliament and helps it to hold government to account.2022 August 10, Mel Holley, “Network News: Question marks over TransPennine upgrade spending”, in RAIL, number 963, page 24:

Forms of scrutinise

third-person singular presentscrutinises
present participlescrutinising
past participlescrutinised
pastscrutinised
alternative formscrutinize

Origin of scrutinise

From scrutiny + -ise.

Questions about scrutinise

What does scrutinise mean?
Scrutinise means to examine something with great care.
What is scrutinise in Tamil?
Scrutinise in Tamil is கூர்ந்தாய்தல், நுண்ணாய்தல். See Scrutinise meaning in Tamil.
How do you use scrutinise in a sentence?
Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
What part of speech is scrutinise?
Scrutinise is a verb.
How do you pronounce scrutinise?
Scrutinise is pronounced /ˈskɹuːtɪnaɪz/.
What is the past tense of scrutinise?
The past tense of scrutinise is scrutinised.

Words near scrutinise in the dictionary

  1. scrutinied
  2. scrutinies
  3. scrutinisable
  4. scrutinisation
  5. scrutinisations
  6. scrutinise
  7. scrutinised
  8. scrutiniser
  9. scrutinisers
  10. scrutinises
  11. scrutinising

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scrutinise (page history and authors); scrutinise (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); scrutinise (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); scrutinise (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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