Dictionary Entry
probe
probe is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.
- 2transitive verb
Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly.
- 3noun
An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc.
- 4noun
an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity
- 5noun
an exploratory action or expedition
- 6noun
a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities
- 7noun
an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
"there was a congressional probe into the scandal"
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- 8verb
question or examine thoroughly and closely
Synonyms
- 9verb
examine physically with or as if with a probe
"probe an anthill"
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