0 past simple and past participle of search
1 to look somewhere carefully in order to find something:
She searched his face for some sign of forgiveness, but it remained expressionless.
I've searched high and low (= everywhere), but I can't find my birth certificate.
The detectives searched the house from top to bottom (= all over it), but they found no sign of the stolen goods.
figurative She searched her mind/memory for the man's name, but she couldn't remember it.
figurative People who are searching after inner peace sometimes turn to religion.
Philosophers have searched for millennia but they haven't found the meaning of life.
We searched all morning for the missing papers and finally discovered them in a drawer.
The youths were dragged from their car and searched for weapons.
The time and resources available to the project will ultimately determine the acceptable level of focus in the search strategies and which sources are searched.
They searched for some convincing drum sounds, and experimented with responses that imitated, inverted or varied a call.
The delay in updating the abstract database is a reason for the low number of articles found in the last year searched.
