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diagnose

ITLv.2 (700)verb
Definition

to identify the precise cause of a problem or fault

Examples

The engineer diagnosed the outage as a power-unit fault.

It is hard to diagnose a cause from symptoms alone.

Collocations
diagnose a faultdiagnose the causecorrectly diagnose
Paraphrase
identify the cause ofpinpoint
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