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vestigate

vestigate verb: to investigate.

Verb

vestigate (third-person singular simple present vestigates, present participle vestigating, simple past and past participle vestigated)

  1. (nonstandard, obsolete) To investigate.
    • This attempt to vestigate these causes […] will not, perhaps, be deemed an unnecessary digression.1813, George Gleig, The historical works of William Robertson, page 274

Forms of vestigate

third-person singular presentvestigates
present participlevestigating
past participlevestigated
pastvestigated

Origin of vestigate

From Latin vestigatus, past participle of vestigare. See vestige.

Questions about vestigate

What does vestigate mean?
Vestigate means to investigate.
What part of speech is vestigate?
Vestigate is a verb.
What is the past tense of vestigate?
The past tense of vestigate is vestigated.

Words near vestigate in the dictionary

  1. vestibulotoxic
  2. vestibulotoxicity
  3. vestibulourethral
  4. vestibulovegetative
  5. vestibulum
  6. vestigate
  7. vestigated
  8. vestigates
  9. vestigating
  10. vestige
  11. vestiges

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