0 to examine a crime, problem, statement, etc. carefully, especially to discover the truth: --
[ + question word ] We are of course investigating how an error like this could have occurred.
Police are investigating allegations of corruption involving senior executives.
1 to examine something carefully, esp. to discover the truth about it: --
[ T ] The school created an independent review board to investigate charges of misconduct.
[ I ] There was a suspicious man near the playground, and we asked the police to investigate.
2 to examine a crime, problem, statement, etc. carefully, especially to discover the truth: --
investigate how/whether/why The commission will investigate whether these companies violated anti-trust laws.
investigate allegations/claims/complaints of sth The office is investigating the allegations of embezzlement.
The FBI was called in to investigate.
3 to try to discover the truth about someone who is accused of a crime: --
The aim of this study was to investigate outcome in frequent attenders in secondary care who present repeatedly with medically unexplained symptoms.
Finally, we investigated the genetic relationship between affective and somatic depressive symptoms.
We generalize the notion of reversible systems in symbolic dynamics, and investigate their properties.
We review research investigating the roles played by these variables in studies of choice from our laboratory.
This also illustrates that segmental reductions should be investigated in context, not as an isolated phenomenon.
Here we investigate an idealised problem where the rigid bottom is replaced by a layer with a damping mechanism.
To investigate these hypotheses, we defined a number of regions that have been identified as part of the social brain network in adults.
The studies that investigated the effects of fruits and vegetables have demonstrated some protective effects.
