Both Uses of
scrutiny
in
Not Without My Daughter
- The city was under siege, its every activity scrutinized by heavily armed soldiers and scowling police.
*scrutinized = looked at very carefullystandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- The exact moment of the Persian New Year can be detected by scrutinizing the eggs upon the mirror, for as the bull shifts the world from one horn to the other, the eggs jiggle.†
Definition:
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(scrutiny) careful examination of something