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scouringverbpresent participle of scour to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover somethingthe police scoured the city for the Typhoid Mary of this latest epidemic combing, digging (through), dredging, hunting (through), raking, ransacking, rifling, rummaging, searching, sorting (through), trolling frisking, patting down, shaking downauditing, checking (out), examining, inspecting, investigating, reviewing, scanning, scrutinizing, surveyingascertaining, descrying, detecting, determining, discovering, ferreting (out), finding, finding out, getting, hitting (on or upon), learning, locating, running down, scaring up, tracking (down)grubbing (about), poking (around)exploring, probing, prospecting, skirmishing, snoopingbrowsing, glancing (over), looking overperusing, studying hidingabandoning, losingignoring, neglecting in 1588 |