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Probe

/prəʊb/

To carefully search, investigate, or examine something, often to find out information about it.

Synonyms:

We probed the cushions with long needles.

Now they had a technique for probing its insides as well.

It was an aching probe to his tired sensitiveness.

Probe originated from the early 17th century Latin probare, meaning to test or prove, originally used in the medical sense of probing a wound.

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