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Searching   /sˈərtʃɪŋ/   Listen
Searching

adjective
1.
Diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation.  Synonyms: inquisitory, probing.  "A searching investigation of their past dealings"
2.
Having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect.  Synonym: trenchant.  "Trenchant criticism"
3.
Exploring thoroughly.


Search

verb
(past & past part. searched; pres. part. searching)
1.
Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of.  Synonyms: look for, seek.  "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"
2.
Search or seek.  Synonym: look.  "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
3.
Inquire into.  Synonyms: explore, research.  "He searched for information on his relatives on the web" , "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"
4.
Subject to a search.  "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"



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"Searching" Quotes from Famous Books



... is searching for, and quoting from it.] Henry Merrifield—entry clerk to Titterton—left Titterton, after a row, on the fifteenth of the ...
— The Big Drum - A Comedy in Four Acts • Arthur Pinero
... I may say that both missionaries support their schools as incidentally revealed here, without Government aid through their own efforts. Also, it was the stalwart man from Saskatchewan who was sent searching the heirs to the estate of an embittered Jacobite of 1745; and those heirs refused to accept either the wealth or the position for the very reasons set forth here. Calamity's story, too, is true—tragically true, though this is not all, not a fraction of her life ...
— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut
... were waiting for his return. Rupert had spent the afternoon searching for employment. He had spent many a long day in the same way ...
— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... the monkey, which, just then, ran around from behind the chair on which he had been standing. And, surely enough Wango had on the big, white wig for which Mr. Treadwell and Miss Winkler had been searching so long. The wig made Wango look ...
— Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue Giving a Show • Laura Lee Hope
... easily conceal'd under the Cloak of Religion, and the Good of Mother Church, under the veil of Ambition, was held sufficient to postpone the Laws of God and Man. Some of those Historians have deliver'd it as Matter of Fact, that the Conspirators, in searching after that young King, press'd into the very Apartments of the Queen his Mother; who having, at the Toll of the Bell, and Cries of the Murder'd, taken the Alarm, on hearing 'em coming, plac'd her self in her Chair, and cover'd the young ...
— Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton • Daniel Defoe


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