scrute

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Definition of scrute

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

(intransitive, rare, transitive)To examine (something) carefully; to scrutinize.

“Hazard scruted the Angels with hooded eyes; the low drone of their murmured ritual chanting of "Make my day" was getting on his nerves. He turned and gloomed down at the table again.”
“And folks call the Chinese inscrutable. When my elder brother's got his mind fixed on a mystery, there's just no scruting the man.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Borrowed from Latin scrūtor, scrūtārī (“to search carefully; to seek for”). Now often reanalyzed from inscrutable.

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