RECONNOITRE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they reconnoitre ... he / she / it reconnoitres

Past simple: reconnoitred

Past participle: reconnoitred

-ing form: reconnoitring

Meaning:

Explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody

Synonyms:

reconnoiter; reconnoitre; scout

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "reconnoitre" is one way to...):

observe (watch attentively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

reconnaissance (the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy))

reconnoitring (exploring in order to gain information)