transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪnvestɪgeɪt ]
( investigates, investigating, investigated)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
If someone, especially an official, investigates an event, situation, or claim, they try to find out what happened or what is the truth.
Gas officials are investigating the cause of an explosion which badly damaged a house in Hampshire...
Police are still investigating how the accident happened.
VERB : V n , V wh , also V
• in‧ves‧ti‧ga‧tion
(investigations)
He ordered an investigation into the affair...
N-VAR : oft N into n