scrute

verb

1. To examine (something) carefully; to scrutinize.

   intransitive, rare, transitive

   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.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin scrūtor, scrūtārī (“to search carefully; to seek for”). Now often reanalyzed from inscrutable.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry scrute (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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