Definition of "inspect"

inspect

/ɪnˈspɛkt/

verb
third-person singular simple present inspects, present participle inspecting, simple past and past participle inspected
1. To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
2. To view and examine officially.
  Quotations
  ‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.
  1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess‎