Both Uses of
scrutiny
in
The Trial
- "My room?" asked Miss Bürstner, and instead of looking round the room scrutinised K. "It is true," said K., and now, for the first time, they looked each other in the eyes, "there's no point in saying exactly how this came about."†
Chpt 1
- It was not possible to learn anything by looking at him, even though K. was scrutinizing him quite brazenly.
Chpt 8 *scrutinizing = looking 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