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verb

Explore v. t. (past & past part. explored; pres. part. exploring)

To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for. (Obs.) "Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs."

To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science. "Hidden frauds (to) explore."

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Etymology of 'Explore'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Explore" Quotes from Famous Books

... to visit the Lozere' wrote a correspondent to me, 'why not explore the Causses? The scenery is, I believe, very remarkable, ...

— The Roof of France • Matilda Betham-Edwards

... She then gave two glass bottles into the Princess's charge, desiring her to take the greatest care of them, and having enforced her orders with the most awful threats in case of disobedience, she vanished, leaving the little girl at liberty to explore the palace and grounds and a good deal relieved at having only two apparently ...

— The Yellow Fairy Book • Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang

... arrived at the old farm she had discovered a hiding place for her purse. Back of the attic, were she had and Maurice and Toby slept, was a little chamber, so narrow—running so completely away into the roof—that even Cecile could only explore it on her ...

— The Children's Pilgrimage • L. T. Meade

... should, like the room, be empty! The possibility opened up all kinds of speculation in Lavinia's active brain. Why not explore the premises? Up till now she had forgotten her lost shoe. To pursue her investigations unsuitably dressed as she was would be absurd. Supposing she had a chance of escaping into the street she ...

— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce

... set out to explore the establishment. They enter room after room, find them small, dark, and filthy beyond description. Some are crowded with half-naked, flabby females, whose careworn faces, and well-starved aspect, tells a sorrowful tale of the chivalry. An abundant supply of profane works, in yellow ...

— Justice in the By-Ways - A Tale of Life • F. Colburn Adams

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