1 ~ (sth) (for sth) to travel to or around an area or a country in order to learn about it:
[VN] The city is best explored on foot. * They explored the land to the south of the Murray river. * [V] As soon as we arrived on the island we were eager to explore. * companies exploring for (= searching for) oil
2 [VN] to examine sth completely or carefully in order to find out more about it:
These ideas will be explored in more detail in chapter 7.
3 [VN] to feel sth with your hands or another part of the body:
She explored the sand with her toes.
seealsoUNEXPLORED
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for explore is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is explore a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, explore is tagged as verb.
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