Verb

(en-verb)

To examine something with great care.

to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals

* Ayliffe

whose votes they were obliged to scrutinize

* G. W. Cable

Those pronounced him youngest who scrutinized his face the closest.

To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.

Verb

(emulat)

To attempt to equal or be the same as.

To copy or imitate, especially a person.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.}}

(obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.

* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 146:

But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...].

(computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device