EXPLORE Copy link • EXPLOREPROPR., scrutari: perscrutari: pervestigare: odorari et pervestigare (like a hound); every corner, in omnibus latebris perreptare. IMPROPR., explorare: exquirere (to search out): pervestigare; indagare et pervestigare (to trace out accurately): perspicere (to see through, get to the bottom of a thing). (The words are found in this connection and order.) perspicere et explorare: rimari (to look, as it were, into every cranny of a subject; Cic.): ☞ explorare also of exploring a country (e.g., Africam, Cic.).