Wiktionary
vb. To scrutinize or size up something; to assess a situation.
WordNet
v. to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail; "he scrutinized his likeness in the mirror" [syn: size up, scrutinize, scrutinise]
Usage examples of "take stock".
If the river was closed to them, Ser Imry would have no choice but to pause and take stock.
I sat down on a bench to take stock and to decide whether to go east or west.
Seven days in a prison cell, without reading materials, without any ability to communicate with others, and - what's more - without a single admirer, had forced him to take stock of himself.
Some day, perhaps, we shall find a way to take stock of the contents of this warehouse.
So, now that we have become more teachable, the time has come for us to take stock or ourselves.
What happens when you have seen most of it, and you are no longer a young man, and you take stock of your life?
Later, when she was alone, she would regroup and take stock, do a damage assessment, but for right now she felt as if everything in her would shatter if she had to look at him.