0 present 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.
Investigating a model of commonsense thinking about causes of movement with 7- to 16-year-old pupils.
We review research investigating the roles played by these variables in studies of choice from our laboratory.
It is important for clinicians to be diligent and precise when investigating causes of obesity, as treatment varies among disorders.
