EXPLORE Synonyms

• discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes

• get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

• make a discovery, make a new finding

• find unexpectedly

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• see for the first time; make a discovery

• identify as in botany or biology, for example

• consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

• observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect

• question or examine thoroughly and closely

• question closely

• put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to

• look over carefully

• come to see in an official or professional capacity

• examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification

• investigate scientifically

• conduct an inquiry or investigation of

• the act of traveling from one place to another

• undertake a journey or trip

• travel upon or across

• travel on water propelled by wind or by other means

• act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance

• direct carefully and safely

• an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities

• a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities

• an exploratory action or expedition

• an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity

• question or examine thoroughly and closely

• examine physically with or as if with a probe

• a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

• a Boy Scout or Girl Scout

• someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)

• someone who can find paths through unexplored territory

• explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody

• to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail

• examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification

• a detailed critical inspection

• short descriptive summary (of events)

• the act of looking or seeing or observing

• consider in a comprehensive way

• look over carefully or inspect

• keep under surveillance

• hold a review (of troops)

• make a survey of; for statistical purposes

• plot a map of (land)

• a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area

• a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)

• a period of time spent in military service

• make a tour of a certain place

• the act of going from one place to another

• a movement through space that changes the location of something

• self-propelled movement

• change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

• undertake a journey or trip

• make a trip for pleasure

• travel upon or across

• undergo transportation as in a vehicle

• travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge

• any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome

• an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits

• a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit

• proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers

• put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

• put at risk

• systematic investigation to establish facts

• a search for knowledge

• attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner

• inquire into

• turn up, loosen, or remove earth