Verb

(en verb)

To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.

To view and examine officially.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}

Verb

(scrutinis)

To examine something with great care.

* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .

Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}

To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.