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inspect is a verb meaning "look over carefully". It carries 3 recorded senses.
look over carefully
“Please inspect your father's will carefully”
come to see in an official or professional capacity
“The governor visited the prison”
“The grant administrator visited the laboratory”
examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification
“audit accounts and tax returns”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for inspect come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.