explores

noun

(colloquial) An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.

verb

(transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

(transitive) To examine or investigate something systematically.

(transitive) To (seek) experience first hand.

(intransitive) To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.

(intransitive) To wander without any particular aim or purpose.

(intransitive, medicine) To examine diagnostically.

(transitive) To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.

(intransitive, obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.

Roots

ploroplor- · Latin · cry out, weep

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The word explores breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root plor-, from Latin ploro (“cry out, weep”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.