All 3 Uses of
scrutiny
in
Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
- Every morning he would rush at his letters, scrutinize them earnestly and then lay them down with a sigh.†
Chpt 2
- He knelt in front of it, scrutinized the labels on it, and took a small twist of wire from his pocket.†
Chpt 7
- Seizing my opportunity, I too knelt down, and taking the handkerchief from the sleeve, scrutinized it minutely.
Chpt 10 *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.
Definition:
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(scrutiny) careful examination of something