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Synonyms for search

examine

Synonyms

inspect

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in search of

Synonyms

  • seeking
  • looking for
  • hunting for
  • in pursuit of
  • on the lookout for
  • chasing after
  • on the track of
  • making inquiries concerning

search for something or someone

Synonyms

search me!

Synonyms

  • I don't know
  • beats me
  • I've no idea
  • I haven't got a clue
  • how should I know?
  • I haven't got the faintest or foggiest idea
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for search

to try to find something

to examine the person or personal effects of in order to find something lost or concealed

a thorough search of a place or persons

an attempting to accomplish or attain

The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Synonyms for search

the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

an investigation seeking answers

an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property

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the examination of alternative hypotheses

boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas

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Ask.com said that AskEraser ensures that it does not retain the search history of users, with searchers given easy access to the product and the ability to change their privacy preference whenever they wish.
Tomorrow night, The Searchers make a return visit to Whitley Bay Playhouse where they will be performing all their golden oldie hits.
Grieving relatives of 155 people killed in Brazil's worst aviation disaster arrived in the Amazon on Monday to fly over the wreckage as searchers tried to recover corpses in the dense jungle.
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Mr Hinde has written to law firms explaining there are some files held by the council which cannot be viewed by personal searchers.