Synonyms for search
sɜrtʃsearch

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1. searchverb

   To look thoroughly.

   The police are searching for evidence in his flat.

   Synonyms:
   seek, look for, scour, comb

2. searchverb

   Synonyms:
   comb, scour

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.7 / 6 votes

1. search

   A hunt may be either the act of pursuing or the act of seeking, or a combination of the two. A chase or pursuit is after that which is fleeing or departing; a search is for that which is hidden; a hunt may be for that which is either hidden or fleeing; a search is a minute and careful seeking, and is especially applied to a locality; we make a search of or through a house, for an object, in which connection it would be colloquial to say a hunt. Hunt never quite loses its association with field-sports, where it includes both search and chase; the search till the game is hunted out, and the chase till it is hunted down. Figuratively, we speak of literary pursuits, or of the pursuit of knowledge; a search for reasons; the chase of fame or honor; hunt, in figurative use, inclines to the unfavorable sense of inquisition, but with more of dash and aggressiveness; as, a hunt for heresy.

   Synonyms:
   chase, hunt, hunting, inquisition, pursuit

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.9 / 7 votes

1. searchverb

   Synonyms:
   inspect, explore, scrutinize, seek, investigate, inquire

   Antonyms:
   pretermit, disregard, abandon, misinvestigate

2. searchnoun

   Synonyms:
   exploration, pursuit, quest, inquiry

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.4 / 10 votes

1. search, hunt, huntingnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   hunt, hunt club, lookup, hunting

2. searchnoun

   an investigation seeking answers

   "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"

   Synonyms:
   hunt, lookup, hunting

3. search, lookupnoun

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

   "they wrote a program to do a table lookup"

   Synonyms:
   hunt, lookup, hunting

4. searchnoun

   the examination of alternative hypotheses

   "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"

   Synonyms:
   hunt, lookup, hunting

5. searchverb

   boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas

   "right of search"

   Synonyms:
   hunt, lookup, hunting

6. search, seek, look forverb

   try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of

   "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"

   Synonyms:
   attempt, anticipate, explore, look, research, essay, try, look to, assay, look for, seek

7. search, lookverb

   search or seek

   "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"

   Synonyms:
   count, await, reckon, appear, seek, seem, explore, front, look for, look, depend, bet, attend, research, take care, face, wait, calculate, expect, see

8. research, search, exploreverb

   inquire into

   "the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project"; "He searched for information on his relatives on the web"; "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"

   Synonyms:
   seek, explore, look, look for, research

9. searchverb

   subject to a search

   "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"

   Synonyms:
   seek, look for, explore, look, research

Matched Categories

1. • Activity
   • Examine
   • Higher Cognitive Process
   • Investigate
   • Investigation
   • Operation

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1. fossicking

   Submitted by anonymous on June 10, 2020  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. searchverb

   Synonyms:
   examine, explore, scrutinize, investigate, overhaul, probe, sift, look into, search into, pry into, peer into

2. searchverb

   Synonyms:
   seek, inquire, mouse, peer, make search, make inquiry

3. searchnoun

   Synonyms:
   examination, inquiry, scrutiny, research, exploration, investigation, quest, pursuit

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. searchnoun

   Synonyms:
   quest, research, pursuit

2. searchverb

   Synonyms:
   examine, explore, hunt, seek, overhaul, rummage, ransack, ferret, scrutinize, probe, sift

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1. List of paraphrases for "search":

   research, quest, recherche, searching, lookup, pursuit, searches, find, finding, seek, prefetch, búsqueda, hunt, searched, investigational, tracing, raided, retrieval, locate, searchable, inst., frisk, inspection, excavation, seeking, recherches, looking, researching

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. SEARCH

   Synonyms:
   Study of the Effectiveness of Additional Reductions in Cholesterol and Homocysteine

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1. Sri Hardianto:

   The search has started since around 7 this morning. The conditions are better than last night.

2. Aventura Major Michael Bentolila:

   It's the most heartbreaking thing I have ever witnessed. Moms, kids, yelling screaming, falling, tripping, kids - lost in the fray - amid the chaos and running around blindly in search of their parents.

3. Brian Williams:

   I remember one such house fire .?.?. conducting a search on my hands and knees, when I felt something warm, squishy and furry on the floor of a closet, i instinctively tucked it in my coat. When I got outside, I saw two small eyes staring up at me, and I returned the 3-week-old and very scared puppy to its grateful owners.

4. Antony Blinken:

   We have concerns about some of the increased military activities in the Arctic. That increases the injuries or prospects of accidents, miscalculation, and undermines the shared goal of a peaceful and sustainable future for the region, so we have to be vigilant about that, there's been cooperation on a number of important areas, over the years on education, oil spill response, search and rescue, pollution issues, and it is our hope that that... the Arctic means an area of peaceful cooperation and peaceful collaboration.

5. Richard Aylmer-Hall:

   Hall said he didn't believe anyone was injured by the actual device. Investigators search next to a train at Parsons Green station in London. (Reuters) It was an absolutely packed, rush-hour District Line train from Wimbledon to Edgware Road. I saw crying women, there was lots of shouting and screaming, there was a bit of a crush on the stairs going down to the streets.