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scrutinising

scrutinising is the present participle and gerund 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.

Adjective

scrutinising (comparative more scrutinising, superlative most scrutinising)

  1. Of an action that scrutinises.
    • Not such was the impression produced by a second and more scrutinising look, or when the face before you was lighted by expression.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Interview”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 244

Forms of scrutinising

comparativemore scrutinising
superlativemost scrutinising

Questions about scrutinising

What does scrutinising mean?
Scrutinising means of an action that scrutinises.
What is scrutinising the present participle and gerund of?
Scrutinising is the present participle and gerund of scrutinise.
What part of speech is scrutinising?
Scrutinising is an adjective.

Words near scrutinising in the dictionary

  1. scrutinise
  2. scrutinised
  3. scrutiniser
  4. scrutinisers
  5. scrutinises
  6. scrutinising
  7. scrutinisingly
  8. scrutinizable
  9. scrutinization
  10. scrutinizations
  11. scrutinize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrutinising (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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