Usually means: Examine closely and in detail.
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  1. scrutinize: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scrutinize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scrutinize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scrutinize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scrutinize: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scrutinize, scrutinize: Wordnik
  7. scrutinize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scrutinize: Wiktionary
  9. scrutinize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scrutinize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scrutinize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scrutinize: Dictionary.com
  13. scrutinize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Scrutinize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. scrutinize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. scrutinize: Rhymezone
  17. Scrutinize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. scrutinize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. scrutinize: Free Dictionary
  20. scrutinize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. scrutinize: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. scrutinize: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scrutinize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scrutinize: Encyclopedia

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  1. scrutinize: Urban Dictionary

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To examine something with great care or detail, as to look for hidden or obscure flaws.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.

Similar:
take stock, inspect, audit, size up, scrutinate, pick apart, sift, scruple, overlook, anatomize, more...

Opposite:
overlook

Types:
examine, investigate, review, analyze, criticize, more...

Phrases:
to scrutinize, examine scrutinize, opposite of scrutinize, would scrutinize, to scrutinize an assessment, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     charcoal,     onyx,     smoke,     gunmetal,     midnight,     shadow,     indigo



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Similar:
take stock, inspect, audit, size up, scrutinate, pick apart, sift, scruple, overlook, anatomize, more...

Opposite:
overlook

Types:
examine, investigate, review, analyze, criticize, more...

Phrases:
to scrutinize, examine scrutinize, opposite of scrutinize, would scrutinize, to scrutinize an assessment, scrutinize in detail, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     charcoal,     onyx,     smoke,     gunmetal,     midnight,     shadow,     indigo



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