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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

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IPA(Pronunciation)

/sɜːt͡ʃ/

Verb

transitive followed by "for" intransitive archaic obsolete

Japanese Meaning

（他動詞）場所や対象を探す、捜し求める。 / （自動詞）徹底的に調べる、探索する。

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Please search the attic for the old boxes before you leave.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

出発する前に、屋根裏部屋で古い箱がないか探してください。

Sense（1）

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

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

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Sense（2）

(intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.

The police are searching for evidence in his flat.

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Sense（3）

(transitive, now rare) To look for, seek.

To search the God of loue, her Nymphes she sent / Throughout the wandring forrest euery where[…].

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Sense（4）

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

Now torne we to the xj kynges that retorned vnto a cyte that hyghte Sorhaute / the whiche cyte was within kynge Vryens / and ther they refresshed hem as wel as they myght / and made leches serche theyr woundys and sorowed gretely for the dethe of her peple

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（5）

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

searches

（ present singular third-person ）

searching

（ participle present ）

searched

（ participle past ）

searched

（ past ）

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