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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



... process than the sending up of the first prisoner, but the rest of the warders were searching about still, especially down close to the edge of the sea, in the expectation of seeing the third man hiding among the rocks half covered with the long strands of the slimy fucus that fringed the tide-washed shore. And all the while the two ...
— Witness to the Deed • George Manville Fenn
... wanted a Scotch word that would signify how many people were in church, and it was on the tip of his tongue, but would come no farther. Puckle was nearly the word, but it did not mean so many people as he meant. The hour had gone by just like winking; he had forgotten all about time while searching ...
— The Art of Public Speaking • Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein
... of the searching Expedition would therefore be to reach Leichhardt's last known camp, and then to examine the banks of the Victoria River to the junction of the Alice River, at the northern bend, where especial search ...
— Journals of Australian Explorations • A C and F T Gregory
... of it was," Miss Oliver continued in a musing voice, searching her memory—"the awkward part was, ...
— Nicky-Nan, Reservist • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
... darted a look of hatred, a venomous look, at Camille, and found, without searching, the sharpest arrows in her quiver. Camille smoked composedly as she listened to a furious tirade, which rang with such cutting insults that we do not reproduce it here. Beatrix, irritated by the calmness of ...
— Beatrix • Honore de Balzac


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