"evestigate" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: evestigates [present, singular, third-person], evestigating [participle, present], evestigated [participle, past], evestigated [past]
Etymology: From Latin evestigatus (“traced out”), from e (“out”) + vestigatus, past participle of vestigare. See vestigate. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|evestigatus||traced out}} Latin evestigatus (“traced out”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} evestigate (third-person singular simple present evestigates, present participle evestigating, simple past and past participle evestigated)
  1. (obsolete) To investigate. Tags: obsolete

Inflected forms

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