Verb

(explor)

(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.

To examine or investigate something systematically.

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To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

(medicine) To examine diagnostically.

To (seek) experience first hand.

To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.

To wander without any particular aim or purpose.

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They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

Verb

(ventur)

To undertake a risky or daring journey.

* J. Dryden, Jr.

who freights a ship to venture on the seas

To risk or offer.

to venture funds

to venture a guess

* Shakespeare

I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.

* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13

Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.

to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at'' or ''on

To put or send on a venture or chance.

to venture a horse to the West Indies

To confide in; to rely on; to trust.

* Addison

A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.

To say something.