📖 Определения и значения для слова investigate
📒 to carefully examine the facts of a situation, an event, a crime, etc. to find out the truth about it or how it happened
- The FBI has been called in to investigate.
- the senior investigating officer
- (informal) ‘What was that noise?’ ‘I'll go and investigate.’
📒 to try to find out information about somebody’s character, activities, etc.
- investigate somebody for something This is not the first time he has been investigated by the police for fraud.
- investigate somebody over something She is being investigated over allegations of illegal business dealings.
- investigate somebody They were investigated on suspicion of drug smuggling.
📒 to find out information and facts about a subject or problem by study or research
- investigate something The study investigates the effects of feeding a high energy diet to cows.
- investigate how, what, etc… Researchers are investigating how foreign speakers gain fluency.