All 8 Uses

probe
in
East of Eden
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By noon the coroner was able to throw wet planks down and probe with a crowbar among the sodden heaps of charcoal.†
Chpt 8 *

probe = to investigate; or an investigation; or an instrument used for investigation
Her eyes probed and searched him, seeking a soft place, but his eyes were flat and hard.†
Chpt 9

probed = investigated
And who in his mind has not probed the black water?†
Chpt 13
It was a Weltschmerz—which we used to call "Welshrats"—the world sadness that rises into the soul like a gas and spreads despair so that you probe for the offending event and can find none.†
Chpt 16

probe = to investigate; or an investigation; or an instrument used for investigation
But we could probe down and see.†
Chpt 17
His brain probed for a weakness in Abra, and so clever was he that he found one almost at once in her words.†
Chpt 27

probed = investigated
Lying back among her pillows and sipping the tea, she probed for her thought.†
Chpt 40
When, far up the track, the block signal snapped from red to green and the long, stabbing probe of the headlight sheered the bend and blared on the station, men looked at their watches and said, "On time.†
Chpt 49

probe = to investigate; or an investigation; or an instrument used for investigation

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)