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Probe

noun

An inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities. Synonym: investigation.

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.

verb

(past & past part. probed; pres. part. probing)

Question or examine thoroughly and closely. Synonym: examine.

Examine physically with or as if with a probe. Synonyms: dig into, poke into.

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"Probe" Quotes from Famous Books

... non-belief are dangerous. Hippolitus died because his stepmother was believed. Troy fell because Cassandra was not believed. Therefore the truth should be investigated long before foolish opinion can properly judge." (Prove probe?). ...

— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan

... quite a boy. On enter- 193:3 ing the house I met his physician, who said that the patient was dying. The physician had just probed the ulcer on the hip, and said the bone was carious 193:6 for several inches. He even showed me the probe, which had on it the evidence of this condition of the bone. The doctor went out. Mr. Clark lay with his eyes fixed and 193:9 sightless. The dew of death was on his brow. I went to his bedside. In a few moments his face changed; its death-pallor gave place to a natural hue. The eyelids ...

— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy

... they have primed you with their preaching, They have soaked you in convention through and through; They have put you in a showcase; you're a credit to their teaching — But can't you hear the Wild? — it's calling you. Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide us; Let us journey to a lonely land I know. There's a whisper on the night-wind, there's a star agleam to guide us, And the Wild is calling, calling... ...

— The Spell of the Yukon • Robert Service

... my very heart, and made me feel that he had not yet told me half the sorrow shut up in his little bosom; and while, with tears in my eyes, I tried to encourage him to go on, I felt almost guilty, and was about deciding to probe his little heart no more, when of his own accord ...

— Stories of Childhood • Various

... in restoring his strength. Far from undergoing any sense of alarm which would frighten him out of further effort to probe to the bottom of the business, he was stubbornly determined to remain on the case till the whole thing was stripped of ...

— A Husband by Proxy • Jack Steele

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