probe
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- n an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
there was a congressional probe into the scandal - n a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities
- n an exploratory action or expedition
- n an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity
- v question or examine thoroughly and closely
- v examine physically with or as if with a probe
probe an anthill
- Initial observations by the Kepler space probe show that it is in perfect working order.
- The probe was quietly suspended in 1997.
- As the Galileo spacecraft prepared to take up its orbit around Jupiter, a 746-pound probe released from the spacecraft in July slammed into the Jovian atmosphere.