Definitions For Probe

noun

  • An investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity
  • An exploratory action or expedition
  • A flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities
  • An inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
  • A careful examination or investigation of something
  • A thin, long instrument that is used especially for examining parts of the body

verb

  • Question or examine thoroughly and closely
  • Examine physically with or as if with a probe
  • To ask a lot of questions in order to find secret or hidden information about someone or something
  • To touch or reach into (something) by using your finger, a long tool, etc., in order to see or find something
  • To look into or examine (something) carefully

Is Probes a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
12

The word Probe is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Probe in a Sentence

  • The FBI probe did not produce any new evidence.
  • A congressional probe into the accusations
  • His questions made it clear he was probing for information.
  • He didn't like the police probing into his past.
  • He didn't like the police probing him about his past.

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