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searchnoun an act or process of looking carefully or thoroughly for someone or somethingthe search for the missing hikers lasted several days hunt, quest shakedownsweepchase, pursuitrecon, reconnaissance, scoutcanvass(also canvas), surveyexploration, probeforage searchverbto look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover somethingarchaeologists have begun to search the southern end of the valley, where they believe the underground tombs are located comb, dig (through), dredge, hunt (through), rake, ransack, rifle, rummage, scour, sort (through), troll frisk, pat down, shake downaudit, check (out), examine, inspect, investigate, review, scan, scrutinize, surveyascertain, descry, detect, determine, discover, ferret (out), find, find out, get, hit (on or upon), learn, locate, run down, scare up, track (down)grub (about), poke (around)explore, probe, prospect, skirmish, snoopbrowse, glance (over), look overperuse, study hideabandon, loseignore, neglect to go into or range over for purposes of discoverythe Spanish conquistadors searched vast areas of the Southwest in their quest for the fabled cities of gold explore, hunt, probe, prospect, skirr reconnoiter(or reconnoitre), scoutdisclose, discover, reveal, unearthfathom, plumb, sound in the 14th century |