Meaning

1 senses

  1. To scan or sweep across like a searchlight.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Ziri searched the surrounding waters with a searchlight.

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  2. Jonas saw a boat with a searchlight on it.

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  3. Ziri turned on the searchlight.

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Origin

From search + light. Compare West Frisian sykljocht (“searchlight”), Dutch zoeklicht (“sea

From search + light. Compare West Frisian sykljocht (“searchlight”), Dutch zoeklicht (“searchlight”), Danish søgelys (“searchlight”), Swedish sökarljus (“searchlight”).

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Forms

searchlights, searchlighting, searchlighted, searchlighted
Base formsearchlight · to searchlight
3rd person singularsearchlights
Present participlesearchlighting
Past simplesearchlighted / searchlit
Past participlesearchlighted / searchlit

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysearchlight
he, she, itsearchlights

Past simpleLesson

all personssearchlighted

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill searchlight

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
searchA2searchablesearcherseashellseashore

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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