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/prˈoʊbɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Probe v. t. (past & past part. probed; pres. part. probing)

To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.

Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly. "The growing disposition to probe the legality of all acts, of the crown."

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Etymology of 'Probing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Probing" Quotes from Famous Books

... M. Keenan of Paradise, California, who assisted in various ways in the progress of the investigation. Last, to the various members of the Washo tribe, who with patience and good humor bore the probing into ...

— Washo Religion • James F. Downs

... Chopin; he alone, the modern primeval man, puts our brains on the green meadows, he alone thinks in hyper-European dimensions. He alone rebuilds the shattered Jerusalem of our souls."All of which shows to what comically delirious lengths this sort of deleterious soul- probing may go. ...

— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker

... Errington shuddered and averted his gaze from that hideous face,—so horribly contorted,—yet otherwise deathlike in its rigid stillness. There was a grave hush. The surgeon still bent over him—touching here, probing there, with tenderness and skill,—but finally he drew back with a hopeless shake ...

— Thelma • Marie Corelli

... Reason ponder with an anguish'd smile Probing thy sore wound sternly, tho' the while Her eye be swollen ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... genuine emotion in Chase's voice was as strong as the ring of truth. Belding knew truth when he heard it. The revelation did not surprise him. Belding did not soften, for he devined that Chase's emotion was due to the probing of an old wound, the recalling of a past both happy and painful. Still, human nature was so strange that perhaps kindness and sympathy might yet have a place in this Chase's heart. Belding did not believe so, but he was willing to give Chase the ...

— Desert Gold • Zane Grey

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