Scrutinised vs Scrutinized - What's the difference?
scrutinised | scrutinized |
(scrutinise)
To examine something with great care.
* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.
(scrutinize)
To examine something with great care.
* Ayliffe
* G. W. Cable
To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.
As verbs the difference between scrutinised and scrutinized
is that scrutinised is past tense of scrutinise while scrutinized is past tense of scrutinize.scrutinised
English
Verb
(head)scrutinise
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Alternative forms
* scrutinizeVerb
(scrutinis)- Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;
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.}}
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* British English formsscrutinized
English
Verb
(head)scrutinize
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Alternative forms
* 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.