"vestigate" meaning in English

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        "2": "la",
        "3": "vestigatus"
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      "expansion": "Latin vestigatus",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "lena"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin vestigatus, past participle of vestigare. See vestige.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vestigates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vestigating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vestigated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vestigated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1813, George Gleig, The historical works of William Robertson, page 274:",
          "text": "This attempt to vestigate these causes […] will not, perhaps, be deemed an unnecessary digression.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To investigate."
      ],
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        [
          "investigate",
          "investigate"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To investigate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "vestigate"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "vestigatus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin vestigatus",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "lena"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin vestigatus, past participle of vestigare. See vestige.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vestigates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vestigating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vestigated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vestigated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "text": "This attempt to vestigate these causes […] will not, perhaps, be deemed an unnecessary digression.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To investigate."
      ],
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        [
          "investigate",
          "investigate"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To investigate."
      ],
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  ],
  "word": "vestigate"
}