inquest
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- noun
- /ˈɪnkwɛst/
- Formal
- Andy Burnham We are now just one month from the start of a new inquest into the Birmingham pub bombings.
- coroner's inquest
- inquest into the death
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Watch on YouTubeSo I'd gone a Haywall and this was it took ages because of the inquest, because it was a bike accident at a, you know, private land racetrack event.
- So I'd gone a Haywall and this was it took ages because of the inquest, because it was a bike accident at a, you know, private land racetrack event.
Examples
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There was an inquest, and the body was flown home later on the same plane as me.
Fiction book (1992) -
We have the report of the coroner's inquest.
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And so that whole inquest took five years.
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This has nothing to do with this inquest, and you know it.
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Tom himself could not benefit from an inquest, but the authorities had to have one.
Fiction book (1993) -
You realize what the verdict of the inquest will be?
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There was an inquest, and the death was ruled an accident, but we know it was murder.
Fiction book (2002) -
I'd like you both to make an official statement... ...before the inquest.
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At the inquest, I testified that I had seen his own hounds turn on him.
Fiction book (1994) -
The evidence presented at the inquest is overwhelming that it was suicide.
Synonyms
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An official investigation into a serious public matter
How Official
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Inquest comes from Latin parts in- ('in') and quaerere ('to seek'), so the word is like a formal quest or 'search into' what happened. That's why an inquest is an official investigation to find the cause of a person's death.