Another word for looking into

as in exploring

to search through or into

the owner is being forced to look into new options for promoting his declining business

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• n.

  •
  • gather,
  • look up,
  • scout.

  • check (noun)

  • check.

  • check into (noun)

  • check into.

  • check out (noun)

  • check out.

  • check up on (noun)

  • check up on.

  • follow up (noun)

  • follow.

  • look into (noun)

  • Suss Out.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • inspect.

• v.

  • delve (verb)

  • unearth,
  • burrow,
  • spade,
  • excavate,
  • dredge.

  • dig (verb)

  • extricate,
  • uncover,
  • come across,
  • retrieve,
  • find,
  • come up with,
  • root,
  • bring to light,
  • expose.

  • enquire (verb)

  • want to know,
  • go over,
  • seek an answer,
  • question,
  • query.

  • estimate (verb)

  • cast,
  • guess,
  • believe,
  • cipher,
  • count,
  • assay,
  • outline,
  • think,
  • number,
  • tax,
  • class,
  • reason,
  • suppose,
  • assess,
  • judge,
  • classify,
  • decide,
  • sum,
  • deduce,
  • reckon,
  • plan,
  • rate,
  • consider,
  • suspect,
  • regard,
  • budget,
  • expect,
  • scheme,
  • gauge,
  • predict,
  • rank,
  • determine,
  • surmise,
  • appraise,
  • account,
  • compute,
  • conjecture,
  • figure,
  • prophesy.

  • explore (verb)

  • tour,
  • traverse,
  • hunt,
  • travel.

  • follow up (verb)

  • pursue.

  • go into (verb)

  • review,
  • discuss.

  • investigate (verb)

  • frisk,
  • poke,
  • interrogate,
  • bug,
  • run down,
  • read,
  • spy,
  • tap.

  • look into (verb)

  • audit,
  • inquire,
  • scrutinize.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)

  • examine,
  • analyse,
  • canvass,
  • canvas,
  • analyze.

  • probe (verb)

  • catechize,
  • penetrate,
  • eye,
  • ask,
  • verify,
  • pierce,
  • prod,
  • quiz.

  • prospect (verb)

  • pro-spect,
  • pro spect,
  • went after,
  • pro-spects,
  • pro spects.

  • ransack (verb)

  • de-spoiling,
  • looking all over for,
  • goes over with a fine tooth comb,
  • de-spoiled,
  • going over with fine-tooth comb,
  • went over with a fine tooth comb,
  • de spoiling,
  • looking over for,
  • looks over for,
  • looks all over for,
  • over-haul,
  • go over with a finetooth comb,
  • looking high and low,
  • go over with fine tooth comb,
  • look high low,
  • go over with finetooth comb,
  • over hauling,
  • over haul,
  • looked over for,
  • went over with finetooth comb,
  • going over with a finetooth comb,
  • de spoiled,
  • made off with,
  • go over with a fine tooth comb,
  • went over with a finetooth comb,
  • looks high low,
  • looking high low,
  • de-spoils,
  • looked high and low,
  • making with,
  • going over with a fine tooth comb,
  • went over with fine tooth comb,
  • goes over with fine tooth comb,
  • over-hauls,
  • goes over with finetooth comb,
  • going over with fine tooth comb,
  • went over with a fine-tooth comb,
  • de-spoil,
  • goes over with a fine-tooth comb,
  • de spoils,
  • over-hauled,
  • goes over with fine-tooth comb,
  • went over with fine-tooth comb,
  • de spoil,
  • takes away,
  • makes off with,
  • over hauled,
  • over hauls,
  • look over for,
  • looks high and low,
  • makes with,
  • goes over with a finetooth comb,
  • go over with fine-tooth comb,
  • going over with a fine-tooth comb,
  • looked all over for,
  • make with,
  • going over with finetooth comb,
  • over-hauling,
  • made with,
  • looked high low.

  • research (verb)

  • does tests,
  • dost tests,
  • re searched,
  • reading up on,
  • re-searching,
  • doeth tests,
  • doest tests,
  • doth tests,
  • didst tests,
  • reads on,
  • plays around with,
  • re searching,
  • reads upon,
  • playing around with,
  • did tests,
  • read on,
  • reading upon,
  • read upon,
  • re-searched,
  • reads up on,
  • reading on,
  • re-searches,
  • re search,
  • doing tests,
  • re searches.

  • sift (verb)

  • co-lander,
  • pores over,
  • co lander,
  • co landers,
  • co-landers,
  • pored over.

  • study (verb)

  • gave eagle eye,
  • de-liberate,
  • giving the eagle eye,
  • give eagle eye,
  • dost research,
  • doeth research,
  • gives eagle eye,
  • doing research,
  • gave the eagle eye,
  • keeps tabs,
  • de-liberates,
  • sorts out,
  • does research,
  • giving eagle eye,
  • gives the eagle eye,
  • did research,
  • de liberating,
  • doest research,
  • kept tabs,
  • didst research,
  • doth research,
  • de-liberated,
  • de-liberating,
  • de liberated,
  • de liberates,
  • de liberate.

  • test (verb)

  • make trial run,
  • ran up flagpole,
  • sent up a balloon,
  • gives a tryout,
  • tries on for size,
  • experimentalized,
  • makes a trial run,
  • running it a flagpole,
  • runs up flagpole,
  • running a flagpole,
  • gave a tryout,
  • sending up balloon,
  • seeing how flies,
  • giving a tryout,
  • running it flagpole,
  • running up flagpole,
  • send a balloon,
  • gives tryout,
  • making trial run,
  • experimentalizes,
  • ran it up flagpole,
  • making a trial run,
  • ran it flagpole,
  • running idea by someone,
  • made a trial run,
  • sent up balloon,
  • sends a balloon,
  • giving tryout,
  • sending a balloon,
  • runs flagpole,
  • runs a flagpole,
  • tried for size,
  • running flagpole,
  • ran up a flagpole,
  • send up balloon,
  • run flagpole,
  • sending up a balloon,
  • sees how wind blows,
  • runs it a flagpole,
  • run a flagpole,
  • runs up a flagpole,
  • ran it up a flagpole,
  • run it flagpole,
  • runs it up flagpole,
  • stacks up,
  • ran it a flagpole,
  • tried on for size,
  • seeing how it flies,
  • matches up,
  • sent balloon,
  • sending balloon,
  • runs it flagpole,
  • tries for size,
  • trying for size,
  • sends up balloon,
  • made trial run,
  • sent a balloon,
  • sees how flies,
  • saw how flies,
  • runs it up a flagpole,
  • runs idea by someone,
  • running it up flagpole,
  • saw how wind blows,
  • sees how it flies,
  • ran a flagpole,
  • seeing how wind blows,
  • sends up a balloon,
  • running up a flagpole,
  • ran flagpole,
  • run it a flagpole,
  • gave tryout,
  • matching up,
  • ran idea by someone,
  • experimentalizing,
  • trying on for size,
  • saw how it flies,
  • running it up a flagpole,
  • see how flies,
  • sends balloon,
  • send balloon,
  • makes trial run.

  • valuate (verb)

  • taking the measure of,
  • takes the measure of,
  • takes measure of,
  • taking measure of,
  • took measure of,
  • took the measure of.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • investigative,
  • ferret out,
  • pry,
  • cast around for,
  • dig around,
  • poke around,
  • nose into.
  •
  • snoop,
  • sniff around,
  • reconnoiter,
  • chase up.
  •
  • reconstruct,
  • consult.
  •
  • seek.
  •
  • try.
  •
  • pump.

  • enquire

  • enquiring,
  • enquire.

  • Other relevant words:

  • make sure,
  • estimate,
  • Ferreted,
  • laying waste,
  • find out about,
  • give tryout,
  • run idea by someone,
  • gouge out,
  • study,
  • make inquiry,
  • take away,
  • investigate,
  • gouged out,
  • Predicting,
  • make a trial run,
  • search high and low,
  • go into,
  • lays waste,
  • try out,
  • test,
  • scoop out,
  • do research,
  • size up,
  • be all ears,
  • go over with a fine-tooth comb,
  • scoped,
  • research,
  • Troweled,
  • followed up,
  • searches,
  • stake out,
  • do tests,
  • really get into,
  • dig,
  • Trowelled,
  • listen in,
  • lay waste,
  • turn upside down,
  • check up,
  • read up on,
  • give the once over,
  • Experimentalize,
  • nose around,
  • play around with,
  • ferret,
  • colandered,
  • Explored,
  • give the eagle eye,
  • taking away,
  • leave no stone unturned,
  • calculate roughly,
  • feel out,
  • match up,
  • look upon,
  • looked over,
  • running over,
  • search,
  • look all over for,
  • laid waste,
  • Spading,
  • Summed,
  • set a figure,
  • trowels,
  • sifting,
  • Gauging,
  • reconnoitred,
  • wiretaps,
  • reconnoitre,
  • explore,
  • eyeballs,
  • wiretapped,
  • send up a balloon,
  • listens in,
  • took away,
  • Accounted,
  • played around with,
  • evaluate,
  • muckraking,
  • guesstimated,
  • troweling,
  • sieved,
  • wiretapping,
  • have a look,
  • predicts,
  • looked upon,
  • keeping tabs,
  • turned upside down,
  • reconnoitring,
  • feeling out,
  • run up a flagpole,
  • stack up,
  • trying on,
  • traveled,
  • test the waters,
  • enumerate,
  • sound out,
  • dig down,
  • checked over,
  • ran over,
  • Ferreting,
  • Re-search,
  • guesstimate,
  • inquired into,
  • probe,
  • think through,
  • rummage,
  • matched up,
  • prospect,
  • inquisite,
  • poring over,
  • gouges out,
  • eyeball,
  • listening in,
  • look over,
  • making off with,
  • follow up,
  • look see,
  • look-see,
  • Unearthing,
  • sort out,
  • staking out,
  • sieving,
  • see how it flies,
  • pore over,
  • inquire into,
  • look high and low,
  • make off with,
  • Ferrets,
  • see how wind blows,
  • made sure,
  • Summing,
  • turning inside out,
  • Spaded,
  • explores,
  • delve into,
  • sorting out,
  • stacked up,
  • sorted out,
  • put out a feeler,
  • give a tryout,
  • sounded out,
  • form opinion,
  • try on for size,
  • turned inside out,
  • reconnoitres,
  • shovel,
  • muckraked,
  • stacking up,
  • making inquiry,
  • trowel,
  • sift,
  • look into,
  • jump into,
  • come with,
  • thought through,
  • scoping,
  • shake down,
  • run it up flagpole,
  • run up flagpole,
  • looking over,
  • put to the test,
  • sized,
  • keep tabs,
  • wiretap,
  • dig into,
  • run it up a flagpole,
  • trowelling,
  • try for size,
  • delve,
  • sizing,
  • look,
  • eyeballing,
  • muckrake,
  • run over,
  • ransack,
  • turn inside out,
  • sounding out,
  • check over,
  • looked into,
  • colandering,
  • feel around.

  • prospect

  • going after,
  • goes after.

  • valuate

  • Valuing,
  • take the measure of,
  • take measure of.

  • Other relevant words (noun):

  • find out,
  • inquire of,
  • case,
  • track,
  • see,
  • give thought to,
  • enquire about,
  • search through,
  • note,
  • vet,
  • measure,
  • observe,
  • pay attention to,
  • pry into,
  • plumb,
  • inquire about,
  • look at,
  • fathom,
  • plough through,
  • mark,
  • weigh,
  • poke into,
  • think about,
  • contemplate,
  • attend to,
  • sound,
  • comb,
  • go after,
  • discover,
  • scan,
  • scout out,
  • dive into,
  • search into,
  • scour,
  • report,
  • notice,
  • survey,
  • hunt through,
  • peruse,
  • valuate,
  • go through,
  • perceive,
  • Indagate,
  • winnow,
  • peer.

How to use «Look into» in context?

When we are looking into something, what are we really doing? Our eyes are taking in every detail of the thing in front of us. This is information processing in action! What are the different parts of our brain involved in looking into something?

Homophones for Look into:

• leech onto, like-minded, luck into, Leigh Hunt, lycaenid, low comedy, luganda, loosened, lycaenidae, lignite, locksmith, legend, licentiate, law agent, loose smut, lessened, lace into, lagend, lucanidae, locknut, laciniate, loose end, like mad, Lake Mead, ligament, liquescent, Low Sunday, ligand, locomote, lucent, loose-jointed.

Omophagic

Synonyms:

herbivorous,
omnivorous.

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