Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chiefly British English spelling of scrutinize (q.v.); for suffix, see -ize. Related: Scrutinised; scrutinising; scrutinisation.
Wiktionary
alt. (context transitive English) To examine something with great care. vb. (context transitive English) To examine something with great care.
WordNet
v. to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail; "he scrutinized his likeness in the mirror" [syn: size up, take stock, scrutinize]
of accounts and tax returns; with the intent to verify [syn: audit, scrutinize, inspect]
Usage examples of "scrutinise".
As Beverley and Theo chatted animatedly in the way that they do, I scrutinised Andrew more closely.
What limit can be put to this power, acting during long ages and rigidly scrutinising the whole constitution, structure, and habits of each creature,--favouring the good and rejecting the bad?
Stepping back, he scrutinised their hips and bellies and so no trace of his leavings.
A sleepy tirewoman was undressing her, and closely as she scrutinised the vivid little face Mary could perceive nothing in it but a natural weariness.
Lanyard, scrutinising the deck with the flashlamp, stooped, picked up something, and offered it on an outspread palm upon which he trained the clear electric beam.
Solchaim was the first figure they scrutinised when the four came down the street towards them.
For a long time he scrutinised those remote blue levels and saw no more.
Then he came back to the American side of the island, crossed close to the crumpled aluminium wreckage of the Hohenzollern to Green Islet, and scrutinised the hopeless breach in the further bridge and the water that boiled beneath it.
One carried a gun and the other a hatchet, and they scrutinised him and his cudgel scornfully.
He looked up and scrutinised Davies and afterwards Mod as if they were not quite what he would have expected.
She said the word this time to herself as she sat up straight and scrutinised him.
To her I was first presented, and cursorily scrutinised with a stately old-fashioned insolence, as if I were a candidate footman, and so dismissed.
She turned her head and found herself being scrutinised by heavy-lidded brown eyes belonging to man riding a flaxen-maned chestnut.
Opposite Lilac Cottage, she stopped and scrutinised it, and Louise, anxious not to be seen at the window, shrank back and went into the kitchen to rinse her cup.
During the acathistus Maslova occupied herself in scrutinising him and talking to Theodosia in whispers, and bowed and made the sign of the cross only when every one else did.