0 to examine a crime, problem, statement, etc. carefully, especially to discover the truth:
Police are investigating allegations of corruption involving senior executives.
[ + question word ] We are of course investigating how an error like this could have occurred.
1 to examine something carefully, esp. to discover the truth about it:
[ I ] There was a suspicious man near the playground, and we asked the police to investigate.
[ T ] The school created an independent review board to investigate charges of misconduct.
2 to examine a crime, problem, statement, etc. carefully, especially to discover the truth:
The FBI was called in to investigate.
investigate allegations/claims/complaints of sth The office is investigating the allegations of embezzlement.
investigate how/whether/why The commission will investigate whether these companies violated anti-trust laws.
3 to try to discover the truth about someone who is accused of a crime:
Scotland Yard have been called in to investigate the murder.
The remit of this official inquiry is to investigate the reasons for the accident.
The government set up a commission to investigate the problem of inner city violence.
The UN is investigating new methods of population control .
I wonder what that noise was in the kitchen - I'd better go and investigate.
The third approach uses planning effects on task performance to investigate how learners monitor their language.
Various aspects of the interaction of relativistically intense pulses with preformed plasmas and solid targets were investigated in the experiments.
A second common feature of qualitative research is the emphasis upon the description of the setting being investigated.
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