0 past simple and past participle of investigate
1 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.
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.
A second common feature of qualitative research is the emphasis upon the description of the setting being investigated.
In particular, problems of coexistence and exclusion of competing species have been theoretically investigated using models based on partial and ordinary differential equations.
The impact of singing on children's psychological state and well-being was investigated with a participant population of 76 pre-pubertal children.
