Meaning

6 senses

  1. (transitive)To look in (a place) for something.

    I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.

    suchen, absuchen, durchsuchen

    иска́тьiskátʹ

    шука́тиšukáty, обшу́куватиobšúkuvaty, обшука́тиobšukáty

  2. (intransitive)To look thoroughly.

    The police are searching for evidence in his flat.

    suchen

    разы́скиватьrazýskivatʹ, разыска́тьrazyskátʹ

  3. (transitive)To put a phrase into a search engine, especially one besides Google.

    I searched "Paris Hilton" and found lots of unflattering stories.

  4. (archaic, transitive)To look for, seek.

    search or seek

  5. (obsolete, transitive)To probe or examine (a wound).

  6. (obsolete)To examine; to try; to put to the test.

Examples

1337 sentences

  1. I need to search for my pen.

    Мені потрібно пошукати ручку. — deniko

    ruМне нужно найти свою ручку. — marafon

    deIch muss meinen Stift suchen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. Is this what you were searching for?

    Ви це шукали? — shanghainese

    ruЭто то, что вы искали? — odexed

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  3. Tom allowed the police to search his home.

    Том дозволив поліції обшукати свій будинок. — deniko

    ruТом позволил полиции обыскать свой дом. — marafon

    deTom hat es zugelassen, dass die Polizei sein Haus durchsucht. — Djabby

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  4. Is this what you've been searching for all this time?

    Це те, що ти шукав увесь цей час? — ascolto

    deIst es das, was du die ganze Zeit gesucht hast? — samueldora

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  5. How is your job search going?

    Як проходить пошук роботи? — deniko

    ruКак идут поиски работы? — whatnot

    deWie verläuft die Arbeitssuche? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to look throughout (a place) for something:
Русский
By meaning 2
to look throughout (a place) for something:
(followed by "for") to look thoroughly:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to look throughout (a place) for something:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English serchen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sercher, Old French cerc

Inherited from Middle English serchen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sercher, Old French cerchier, from Late Latin circō, ,circāre (“to circle; go around; search for”), from circus. Unrelated to German suchen, which is cognate with English seek.

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Forms

searches, searching, searched, searched
Base formsearch · to search
3rd person singularsearches
Present participlesearching
Past simplesearched
Past participlesearched

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysearch
he, she, itsearches

Past simpleLesson

all personssearched

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave searched
he, she, ithas searched

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill search

Phrasal verbs

3 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

7 synonyms
transitive: look throughout (a place) for something:combB2
seekA2scour
intransitive: look thoroughly:look for
Close in meaning

Word family

58 related words
RelatedlookA1googlesearcher
Derivedasearchbinary searchbreadth-first searchcavity searchconsent searchdepth-first searchfingertip searchfuzzy searchhouse-searchhuman-flesh searchimage searchjackstay searchjobsearchliterature searchmetasearchmultisearchnamesearchoutsearchoversearchre-searchsargablesearchabilitysearchablesearch bar

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • the police searched
  • been searching for
  • police searched
  • searched for the
  • in search of
  • the search party
  • searched everywhere
  • a search warrant
  • search warrant
  • search party
  • search the whole
  • off the search

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
seaportsearsearchablesearchersearchlight
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