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Look into   /lʊk ɪntˈu/   Listen
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verb
1.
Investigate scientifically.  Synonym: investigate.
2.
Examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition.  Synonyms: check, check into, check out, check over, check up on, go over, suss out.  "Check out the engine"






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"Look into" Quotes from Famous Books



... didn't touch the dead dog," pursued Kiddie, "didn't look into her eyes an' see how the pupils were dilated; didn't handle her limbs an' feel how rigid they were. You've seen many an animal killed with a bullet, Rube, but you never saw one lookin' as Sheila looks. ...
— Kiddie the Scout • Robert Leighton

... didn't, there wouldn't be no use o' livin'—not a mite." There was a vibrating tenderness in the man's voice, and an indescribable pathos in its tone, as he spoke, that caused me instinctively to turn my head and look into his face. ...
— The Underdog • F. Hopkinson Smith

... to question some of the head men of the tribe," said Mr. Whitford. "I know some of them, for on several occasions I've had to come here to look into rumors that tobacco and liquor and other contraband goods dear to the Indian heart were smuggled into the reservation against the law. I never caught any of them ...
— Tom Swift and his Great Searchlight • Victor Appleton

... pleasures for which she longed, but, as they were unattainable just then, she made the most of that which was within her reach for the time being. It was to array herself in her best and saunter to and fro in the principal streets, look into shop windows, and exchange winks and rude remarks with young men and women with ...
— All He Knew - A Story • John Habberton

... same way in England during the early part of last century, but they are far in advance of us now. The first notable step in the right direction was taken—as perhaps you may know—in 1869, by the Dialectical Society of London, which appointed a committee to look into the subject of spiritualism, with the expectation, no doubt, of being able to stop the spread ...
— The Shadow World • Hamlin Garland


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