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8 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)
noun a prolonged intense look
originFrom Middle English scrutiny, from Medieval Latin scrūtinium (“a search, an inquiry”), from Vulgar Latin scrūtor (“to search or examine thoroughly”), from Late Latin scrūta (“rubbish, broken trash”), from an extension of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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