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scrutinised

scrutinised is the simple past and past participle of scrutinise.

Meaning of scrutinise

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
  2. (UK, transitive) To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.

Questions about scrutinised

What is scrutinised the simple past and past participle of?
Scrutinised is the simple past and past participle of scrutinise.

Words near scrutinised in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrutinised (page history and authors); scrutinise (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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