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Definitions
conduct an inquiry or investigation of
Word origin
Recorded since circa 1510, a back-formation from investigation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from Latin investīgātiō (“a searching into”), from investīgātus, the perfect passive participle of investīgō, equivalent to in- + vestigate. Displaced native Old English undersēċan (literally “to search under or between”).
Used in a sentence
“to investigate the causes of natural phenomena”
“He was asked to investigate a robbery.”
“We investigated the presence of CNM in ornithophagous ticks from migrating birds.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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