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RECONNOITER
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they reconnoiter ... he / she / it reconnoiters
Past simple: reconnoitered
Past participle: reconnoitered
-ing form: reconnoitering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
Synonyms:
reconnoiter; reconnoitre; scout
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "reconnoiter" is one way to...):
observe (watch attentively)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
reconnaissance (the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy))
reconnoitering (exploring in order to gain information)
