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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

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

noun(search)

a party that searches

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

noun(search)

a group of people trained to find and help lost people

idiom(search)

—used in speech to say that one does not know the answer to a question

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to find (someone or something) by carefully looking

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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