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Inspected vs Insected - What's the difference?

inspected | insected |

As a verb inspected

is (inspect).

As an adjective insected is

(obsolete) resembling or relating to an insect.

inspected

English

Verb

(head)
  • (inspect)

    • inspect

    English

    Alternative forms

    * enspect

    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”. […]’.}}

    Derived terms

    * inspector * inspection

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    insected

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Resembling or relating to an insect.
    • (Howell)
    (Webster 1913)