Ogle vs Scrutinize - What's the difference?
ogle | scrutinize | Related terms |
(intransitive) To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.
* Dryden
To examine something with great care.
* Ayliffe
* G. W. Cable
To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.
Ogle is a related term of scrutinize.
As verbs the difference between ogle and scrutinize
is that ogle is (intransitive) to stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously while scrutinize is to examine something with great care.As a noun ogle
is an impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.ogle
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* (Northern England)Verb
(ogl)- And ogling all their audience, ere they speak.
Anagrams
* ----scrutinize
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* scrutinise (Commonwealth)Verb
(en-verb)- to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals
- whose votes they were obliged to scrutinize
- Those pronounced him youngest who scrutinized his face the closest.