All 6 Uses

probe
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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The prism of the ice might well multiply her size or diminish her as you moved this way or that before the empty store, the window, the night-soft rap-tapping ever-fingering, gently probing moths.†
Part 1

probing = investigating
The boys threw themselves on their separate beds in their separate houses, probed mattresses for chocolate chunks put away against the lean years, and ate moodily.†
Part 1

probed = investigated
Dad probed one with his fingers.
Part 2 *
She could dip down her hands to feel the bumps of the world, touch house roofs, probe attic bins, reap dust, examine draughts that blew through halls and souls that blew through people, draughts vented from bellows to thump-whist, to pound-temples.†
Part 2

probe = to investigate; or an investigation; or an instrument used for investigation
'Sir,' said the man named Dark, probing Charles Halloway's face for the bones there to compare to other bones in other half-similar people, 'the Cooger-Dark Combined Shows have picked two local boys, two!†
Part 2

probing = investigating
Probing this idle refuse, shaking his head, he finally found a tattered matchbox, lit his pipe and began to muse, pacing the room.†
Part 2

Definitions:

(1) (probe)
to investigate closely; or a tool or device used to explore, examine, or gather information
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)