0 past simple and past participle of search --
1 to look somewhere carefully in order to find something: --
Philosophers have searched for millennia but they haven't found the meaning of life.
figurative People who are searching after inner peace sometimes turn to religion.
figurative She searched her mind/memory for the man's name, but she couldn't remember it.
The detectives searched the house from top to bottom (= all over it), but they found no sign of the stolen goods.
I've searched high and low (= everywhere), but I can't find my birth certificate.
She searched his face for some sign of forgiveness, but it remained expressionless.
Reference lists from identified articles were hand searched.
Each slide was systematically searched for ascarid eggs using 40, and where necessary, 100 magnification.
Above the rule glyphs, the dates are shown for each time period the rules have been searched from.
The same corpora were then searched for child initiations of ' happen ' and its variants.
Finally, the published literature is searched and specific groups of experts are consulted.
The modified reduced visibility graph, termed the feasible visibility graph, is then searched to yield the time minimum path for the dimensioned robot.
Although we searched for pair mode solutions we found none in an isotropic degenerate electron gas.
Exploration, on the other hand, is to find new solutions in parts of the space where we have not searched yet.
