scrutor

Meaning

1. (conjugation-1, deponent) to search carefully, search into or out, examine thoroughly, explore a thing, investigate
2. (conjugation-1, deponent) to seek for

Concepts

frisk

muckraker

Translations

filzen

fouiller

fouille-merde

fouilleren

cachear

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈskruː.tɔr]

Etymology

From scrūta, as the original sense of the verb was to search through trash. Compare the possibly parallel development of Old High German scrutōn. Compare also Old English sċrūtnian (“to examine, scrutinise”).