scrute
See also: scruté
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin scrūtor, scrūtārī (“to search carefully; to seek for”).[1] Now often reanalyzed from inscrutable.
Verb
editscrute (third-person singular simple present scrutes, present participle scruting, simple past and past participle scruted)
- (intransitive, transitive, rare) To examine (something) carefully; to scrutinize.
- 1996, William Peter Blatty, Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing: A Fable, New York, N.Y.: Donald I. Fine Books, →ISBN, page 36:
- Hazard scruted the Angels with hooded eyes; the low drone of their murmured ritual chanting of "Make my day" was getting on his nerves. He turned and gloomed down at the table again.
- 2008, Steve Hockensmith, The Black Dove, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Minotaur, →ISBN, page 1:
- And folks call the Chinese inscrutable. When my elder brother's got his mind fixed on a mystery, there's just no scruting the man.
Related terms
editReferences
edit- ^ “scrute, verb.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000..
French
editPronunciation
editVerb
editscrute
- inflection of scruter: