Searching
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Featured: A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933) |
- To look throughout (a place) for something. To try and find something.
- I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.
- (followed by "for") To look thoroughly.
- The police are searching for evidence in his flat.
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Synonyms
- (transitive: look throughout (a place) for something): comb, scour
- (intransitive: look thoroughly): look for, comb, scour
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