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Searching   /sˈərtʃɪŋ/   Listen
Searching

adjective
1.
Diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation.  Synonyms: inquisitory, probing.  "A searching investigation of their past dealings"
2.
Having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect.  Synonym: trenchant.  "Trenchant criticism"
3.
Exploring thoroughly.



Search

verb
(past & past part. searched; pres. part. searching)
1.
Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of.  Synonyms: look for, seek.  "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"
2.
Search or seek.  Synonym: look.  "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
3.
Inquire into.  Synonyms: explore, research.  "He searched for information on his relatives on the web" , "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"
4.
Subject to a search.  "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"



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"Searching" Quotes from Famous Books



... disloyalty by greater solicitude for M'liss. But the child had noticed some change in the master's thoughtful manner, and in one of their long post-prandial walks she stopped suddenly, and mounting a stump, looked full in his face with big searching eyes. ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... found. There was great hue and cry made for her, and men riding hither and yon, for this was a Hynds woman, and her story touched popular imagination, so that she is supposed," said the lawyer dryly, "to wander around Hynds House o' nights, crying for Richard and searching ...
— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler

... son of a Scottish minister, who had been surprised by hearing Mr. Chalmers's work on the Evidences of Christianity mentioned with high approval, within the walls of an English University, shortly after the date of its publication. The keen dark eye of the youthful auditor fixed itself in searching scrutiny upon the preacher, and a few years later his graceful and graphic pen drew ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various

... philosophical works in Latin. He planned a Latin work in six parts, to cover the whole field of the philosophy of natural science. The most famous of the parts completed is the Novum Organum, which deals with certain methods for searching after definite truth, and shows how to avoid some ever present ...
— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck

... General is a fine soldierly, well-preserved old gentleman, with a pale wrinkled countenance, and a keen clear eye, restless and searching. His seat is an uncommonly good one, his hand apparently light, and his carriage easy and horseman-like; circumstances, though trifling in themselves, not so general here as to ...
— Impressions of America - During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Tyrone Power


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