SEARCH
Definition:
- [noun] the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
Synonyms: hunt, hunting
- [noun] an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"
- [noun] an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property; "they wrote a program to do a table lookup"
Synonyms: lookup
- [noun] the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"
- [noun] boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search"
- [verb] try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"
Synonyms: seek, look for
- [verb] search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
Synonyms: look
- [verb] inquire into
Synonyms: reexplore
- [verb] subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"
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Related Words:
- dredge, drag
- finger
- grope, fumble
- divine
- browse, surf
- leave no stone unturned
- hunt
- gather
- want
- scour
- seek out
- quest for, go after, quest after, pursue
- fish, angle
- grub
- feel
- shop, browse
- hunt
- cruise
- prospect
- pry, nose, poke
- prospect
- re-explore
- cast about, beat about, cast around
- raid
- frisk
- strip-search
- scan
- rifle, go
- rummage
- comb, ransack
- exploration
- foraging, forage
- frisk, frisking
- looking, looking for
- manhunt
- quest, seeking
- ransacking, rummage
- scouring
- shakedown
- hunt
- pursuit, pursuance, quest
