4.7.5.1 Investigate a crime
Use this domain for words referring to investigating a crime, accident, or criminal--to try to learn something about something bad that has happened because you want to know who did it, or to try to learn something about someone because you think they did something bad.
-
(1) What words refer to investigating a crime or accident?
Example words: investigate, look into, inquire, hold an inquiry, conduct an inquiry, make inquiries, go into, probe, delve into, be under investigation, examine, obtain evidence
-
(2) What words refer to investigating someone to know if they have done something wrong?
Example words: obtain evidence, poke around, snoop, surprise, try, question
-
(3) What words refer to the process of investigation?
Example words: investigation, inquiry, inquest, inquiries, probe, inquisition, post-mortem, autopsy
-
(4) What words refer to knowledge about a crime?
Example words: evidence, facts, proof
-
(5) What words refer to finding out that someone committed a crime?
Example words: catch, detect, entrap, catch red-handed, trap, trip up, find out, prove
-
(6) What words refer to a person who investigates a crime?
Example words: investigator, private investigator, detective, private detective, inquisitor, private eye