Word Meanings - VESTIGATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To investigate.

INVESTIGATE
To follow up step by step by patient inquiry or observation; to trace or track mentally; to search into; to inquire and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena.
REINVESTIGATE
To investigate again. -- Re`in*ves`ti*ga"tion (-g, n.