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verb(search)
to look into or over carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something: such as
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to examine in seeking something
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to look through or explore by inspecting possible places of concealment or investigating suspicious circumstances
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noun(search)
an act of searching
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an act of boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas in exercise of right of search
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a party that searches
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noun(search)
computer software used to search data (such as text or a database) for specified information; also : a site on the World Wide Web that uses such software to locate key words in other sites
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a warrant authorizing a search (as of a house) for stolen goods or unlawful possessions
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a group of people trained to find and help lost people
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idiom(search)
—used in speech to say that one does not know the answer to a question
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phrasal verb(search)
to find (someone or something) by carefully looking
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noun(search)
an organized group of people who are looking for someone or something that is missing
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strip search
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a search for something concealed on a person made after removal of the person's clothing

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