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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



... slave girl of whom the Lady Dunya hath heard that she is skilled in different kinds of work and she hath a mind to buy her." Rejoined the Eunuch, "I know neither slave girls nor anyone else; and none shall enter here without my searching according to the King's commands."—And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... through the bars and held my face between them. She looked searching into my eyes, as if straining to force her blocked telepath sense through the deadness of the area. She leaned against the steel but the barrier was very effective; our lips met through the cold metal. ...
— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith
... into the house next to this," Merritt now exclaimed, "and seem to be searching it, which tells me the party who fired, man or boy, must have ...
— The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields • Lieut. Howard Payson
... searching for this little bird. I propose to discuss with it the nature of its extraordinary, and I am ready to admit its gratifying, control over the moon. I think it possible that I may concoct with it some scheme for our return. ...
— Hypolympia - Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy • Edmund Gosse
... suggested a reasonable distrust of the correctness of the hypothesis; and an American, naturally desirous of relieving his own country from so melancholy a reproach, may feel satisfaction that the more searching and judicious criticism of our own day has at length established beyond a doubt that the disease, far from originating in the New World, was never known there till ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V2 • William H. Prescott


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