Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of scrutinize
nounscrutinizing (countable and uncountable, plural scrutinizings)
plural scrutinizings
- countableuncountableAn act of scrutiny.
one's anxious guessings and scrutinizings
1897, Thomas Carlyle, Frederick the Great (page 343)
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