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scrutiniser

scrutiniser is the alternative form of scrutinizer.

Meaning of scrutinizer

Noun

scrutinizer (plural scrutinizers)

  1. One who scrutinizes.
    • The world's Alberto Grimaldis can fight scrutiny by burying truth in committees, dullness and misinformation, or by intimidating the scrutinizers.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN

Forms of scrutiniser

pluralscrutinisers

Origin of scrutiniser

From scrutinise + -er.

Questions about scrutiniser

What is scrutiniser the alternative form of?
Scrutiniser is the alternative form of scrutinizer.

Words near scrutiniser in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrutiniser (page history and authors); scrutinizer (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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