explore

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See also exploré

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[edit] Etymology

Recorded since c.1450 (implied in explorator), from Latin explorare "investigate, search out", itself said to be originally a hunters' term meaning "set up a loud cry," from ex- "out" + plorare "to cry", but the second element is also explained as "to make to flow" (from pluere "to flow")

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Infinitive
to explore

Third person singular
explores

Simple past
explored

Past participle
explored

Present participle
exploring

to explore (third-person singular simple present explores, present participle exploring, simple past and past participle explored)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
  2. (transitive) To examine or investigate something systematically.
    The committee has been exploring alternative solutions to the problem at hand.
  3. (transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
    It was around that time that the expedition began exploring the Arctic Circle.
  4. (intransitive, medicine) To examine diagnostically.
  5. (transitive) To (seek) experience first hand.
    It is normal for a boy of this age to be exploring his sexuality.
  6. (intransitive) To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
    He was too busy exploring to notice his son needed his guidance
  7. (intransitive) To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
    The boys explored all around till cold and hunger drove them back to the campfire one by one

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to examine or investigate something systematically
to travel somewhere in search of discovery
to (seek) experience first hand
to examine diagnostically
to be enagaged exploring in any of the above senses
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to examine or investigate something systematically

to travel in search of discovery

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explore

  1. first-person singular present indicative of explorer.
  2. third-person singular present indicative of explorer.
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of explorer.
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of explorer.
  5. second-person singular imperative of explorer.
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