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searchingverbpresent participle of search to 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 combing, digging (through), dredging, hunting (through), raking, ransacking, rifling, rummaging, scouring, 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 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 exploring, hunting, probing, prospecting, skirring reconnoitering(or reconnoitring), scoutingdisclosing, discovering, revealing, unearthingfathoming, plumbing, sounding |