Synonyms for probe
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1. probenoun

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

2. probenoun

   To explore, investigate, or question

   If you probe further, you may discover different reasons.

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

3. probenoun

   To insert a probe into.

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

4. probenoun

   An act of probing; a prod, a poke.

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

5. probenoun

   An investigation or inquiry.

   They launched a probe into the cause of the accident.

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

6. probenoun

   A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

7. probenoun

   A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.

   Insert the probe into the soil and read the temperature.

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

8. probenoun

   A small, usually unmanned, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

9. probenoun

   a move with multiple answers seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy

   Synonyms:
   yosu-miru

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1. probe

   Synonyms:
   prove, test, scrutinize, verify, investigate, examine, search, silt, explore

   Antonyms:
   skim, misinvestigate, blink, misexamine, slur, miss, gloss

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.7 / 3 votes

1. probe, investigationnoun

   an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities

   "there was a congressional probe into the scandal"

   Synonyms:
   investigation, investigating

2. probenoun

   a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities

   Synonyms:
   investigation

3. probenoun

   an exploratory action or expedition

   Synonyms:
   investigation

4. probeverb

   an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity

   Synonyms:
   investigation

5. probe, examineverb

   question or examine thoroughly and closely

   Synonyms:
   see, examine, poke into, study, try, canvass, essay, test, analyze, prove, analyse, canvas, dig into, try out

6. probe, dig into, poke intoverb

   examine physically with or as if with a probe

   "probe an anthill"

   Synonyms:
   poke into, dig into, examine

Matched Categories

1. • Exploration
   • Inquiry
   • Investigate
   • Surgical Instrument

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1. probeverb

   Synonyms:
   scrutinize, examine, search, sound, explore, sift, look into

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1. probeverb

   Synonyms:
   investigate, examine

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1. List of paraphrases for "probe":

   catheter, probes, rover, malp, investigation, sounding, gavage, orbiter, investigations, probing, infinity, poll, detectors, inquiry

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How to use probe in a sentence?

1. Ron Wyden:

   I urge the FCC expand the scope of this investigation, and to more broadly probe the practice of third parties buying real-time location data on Americans.

2. Wu Yanhua:

   ( This simulation) is a critical milestone for the development of the Mars probe.

3. Alliance CEO Tory Bruno:

   We feel the weight of responsibility of this mission – this is Dr. Parker’s life’s work and it has culminated in this single mission, this rocket, in the span of just a few minutes, less than an hour, will send the spacecraft on its mission out to the Sun to literally fly through the corona – an absolutely amazing technological feat. WEIRD SOLAR SCIENCE : HOW NASA'S PARKER PROBE WILL DIVE THROUGH THE SUN'S ATMOSPHERE.

4. Jessica Lu:

   With microlensing, we're able to probe these lonely, compact objects and weigh them. I think we have opened a new window onto these dark objects, which can't be seen any other way.

5. Donald Trump.Andrew Janz:

   We feel like Devin Nunes is the one person that is really standing in the way of the( FBI Special Counsel) Robert Mueller investigation, we think people deserve to know what happened to our elections in 2016 and what is happening in 2018. And every day my opponent is out there trying to undermine federal law enforcement, the special prosecutors probe and really working for Trump instead of the American people.