"scrute" meaning in English

See scrute in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: scrutes [present, singular, third-person], scruting [participle, present], scruted [participle, past], scruted [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin scrūtor, scrūtārī (“to search carefully; to seek for”). Now often reanalyzed from inscrutable. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|la|scrūtor}} Borrowed from Latin scrūtor Head templates: {{en-verb}} scrute (third-person singular simple present scrutes, present participle scruting, simple past and past participle scruted)
  1. (intransitive, transitive, rare) To examine (something) carefully; to scrutinize. Tags: intransitive, rare, transitive Related terms: scrutator, scrutinate, scrutinize
    Sense id: en-scrute-en-verb-PtzQ-oBp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 59 32 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 52 41 7

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "scrūtor"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Latin scrūtor",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin scrūtor, scrūtārī (“to search carefully; to seek for”). Now often reanalyzed from inscrutable.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scrutes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scruting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scruted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scruted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scrute (third-person singular simple present scrutes, present participle scruting, simple past and past participle scruted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "59 32 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "52 41 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              14
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1996, William Peter Blatty, Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing: A Fable, New York, N.Y.: Donald I. Fine Books, →ISBN, page 36:",
          "text": "Hazard scruted the Angels with hooded eyes; the low drone of their murmured ritual chanting of \"Make my day\" was getting on his nerves. He turned and gloomed down at the table again.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              113,
              121
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2008, Steve Hockensmith, The Black Dove, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Minotaur, →ISBN, page 1:",
          "text": "And folks call the Chinese inscrutable. When my elder brother's got his mind fixed on a mystery, there's just no scruting the man.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To examine (something) carefully; to scrutinize."
      ],
      "id": "en-scrute-en-verb-PtzQ-oBp",
      "links": [
        [
          "examine",
          "examine#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "scrutinize",
          "scrutinize#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, transitive, rare) To examine (something) carefully; to scrutinize."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "scrutator"
        },
        {
          "word": "scrutinate"
        },
        {
          "word": "scrutinize"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scrute"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "scrūtor"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Latin scrūtor",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin scrūtor, scrūtārī (“to search carefully; to seek for”). Now often reanalyzed from inscrutable.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scrutes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scruting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scruted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scruted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scrute (third-person singular simple present scrutes, present participle scruting, simple past and past participle scruted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "scrutator"
    },
    {
      "word": "scrutinate"
    },
    {
      "word": "scrutinize"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms borrowed from Latin",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              14
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1996, William Peter Blatty, Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing: A Fable, New York, N.Y.: Donald I. Fine Books, →ISBN, page 36:",
          "text": "Hazard scruted the Angels with hooded eyes; the low drone of their murmured ritual chanting of \"Make my day\" was getting on his nerves. He turned and gloomed down at the table again.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              113,
              121
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2008, Steve Hockensmith, The Black Dove, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Minotaur, →ISBN, page 1:",
          "text": "And folks call the Chinese inscrutable. When my elder brother's got his mind fixed on a mystery, there's just no scruting the man.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To examine (something) carefully; to scrutinize."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "examine",
          "examine#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "scrutinize",
          "scrutinize#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, transitive, rare) To examine (something) carefully; to scrutinize."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scrute"
}

Download raw JSONL data for scrute meaning in English (2.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (aeaf2a1 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.