INVESTIGATE


Meaning of INVESTIGATE in English

(~s, investigating, ~d)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

If someone, especially an official, ~s 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

investigation (investigations)

He ordered an investigation into the affair...

N-VAR: oft N into n

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