investigating
- 1Present participle and gerund of investigate.
Detectives are investigating the cause of the warehouse fire.
Investigating the missing funds took the auditors several weeks.
Note
The -ing form does two jobs with one spelling. After a form of be it builds the progressive (detectives are investigating); at the head of a phrase it works as a noun (investigating the funds took weeks). In either role it keeps the verb's choice about objects. It can take one, as in investigating a fire or a complaint, or stand alone, as in the police are still investigating, meaning an inquiry is under way.
The police are still investigating, and no arrests have been made.
She spent the morning investigating before she wrote her report.
investigating is a form of investigate
investigate, verb: To inquire into or study something carefully in order to establish the facts or gather information. Full entry
- Forms
- investigateinvestigates he/she/itinvestigating -ing forminvestigated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- investigate → investigating: drop the e, add -ing
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