Search

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Verb

Search (third-person singular simple present searches, present participle searching, simple past and past participle searched)

  1. (transitive) To look in (a place) for something.
    I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.
  2. (intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.
    The police are searching for evidence in his flat.
  3. (transitive, now rare) To look for, seek.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:
      To search the God of loue, her Nymphes she sent / Throughout the wandring forrest euery where [...].
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To probe or examine (a wound).
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I:
      ther they refresshed hem as wel as they myght, and made leches serche theyr woundys and sorowed gretely for the dethe of her peple [...].
    • 1588, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, II.3:
      Now to the bottome dost thou search my wound.

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Noun

Search (plural Searches)
  1. An attempt to find something.
    With only five minutes until we were meant to leave, the search for the keys started in earnest.
  2. The act of searching in general.
    Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently

Adjectives for Search

diligent; preliminary; keen; futile; quiet breathless; fruitless; unreasonable; evident deliberate; repeated; systematic; reckless exhaustive; resolute; protracted; obnoxious blindfolded; vain; intensive; vague; patient; relentless; superstitious; terrestrial proposed; personal; narrow; prolonged studious; frantic; roaming; vigorous weary; nationwide.

Verbs for Search

baffle in—; cease—; conduct—; commence —; devote to—; discontinue—; entail—; enter into—; entrust—to; escape—; instigate —; institute—; justify—; relinquish—; renew—; undertake—; venture on—; wear of—; —ascertains; —consumes; —extends to; —pains; —reveals; —results in; —uncovers ; —unearths.

Adverbs for Search

deliberately; diligently; frenziedly; blindly; frantically; intently; rigorously; fruitlessly; cautiously; tirelessly; systematically; recklessly; protractedly; vainly; relentlessly; vaguely; legally; indefatigably.

Thesaurus

analysis, angle for, ask for, beat, beat about for, beat the bushes, burrow, cast about, chase, check, chivy, comb, delve, delve for, delve into, dig, dig for, dig into, dog, domiciliary visit, dragnet, enquiry, examination, examine, exploration, explore, fan, fathom, fish for, follow, follow up, forage, frisk, give chase, go after, go gunning for, go into, go through, grub, gun for, hollo after, hound, house-search, hunt, hunt for, hunt up, hunting, indagate, inquire of, inquiry, inspect, inspection, investigate, look, look around, look at, look for, look into, look over, look round, look through, look up, make after, nose around, peer into, perquisition, perusal, plumb, poke, poke around, poke into, posse, probe, prosecute, prowl after, pry, pry into, pursual, pursuance, pursue, pursuing, pursuit, quest, quest after, raise the hunt, rake, ransack, ransacking, research, researching, root, rummage, run after, run down, scan, scour, scouring, scout out, scrimmage, scrutinize, scrutiny, search for, search into, search party, search through, search warrant, search-and-destroy operation, searching, see to, seek, seek for, seek out, seeking, shake down, sift, sifting, skirmish, smell around, sound, stalk, stalking, still hunt, still-hunt, study, take out after, try to find, turning over

Etymology

From Middle English serchen, from Anglo-Norman sercher, Old French cerchier, from Latin circare.

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Verb

to look throughout (a place) for something
(followed by "for") to look thoroughly
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