probes

Meanings

Noun

• an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
• a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities
• an exploratory action or expedition
• an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity
• plural of probe

Verb

• question or examine thoroughly and closely
• examine physically with or as if with a probe
• third-person singular simple present indicative of probe

Synonyms

dig into, examine, investigation, poke into, probe