fish
verb [I usually + adv/prep] (SEARCH) /fɪʃ/Definition
› to search, especially in difficult conditions: She fished in her tool box for the right spanner. The director was fishing for information about our strategy. He's always fishing for compliments (= trying to make people say good things about him).Searching
(Definition of fish verb (SEARCH) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber noun
- bounty hunter noun
- burrow verb
- cast around/about phrasal verb
- divine verb (SEARCH)
- leave no stone unturned idiom
- look sth out phrasal verb
- manhunt noun
- nose verb (SEARCH)
- once-over noun (LOOKING)
- poke around phrasal verb
- scout noun (SEARCH)
- scout verb
- seeker noun
- shake sb/somewhere down phrasal verb
- shakedown noun (SEARCH)
- strip search noun
- troll verb (SEARCH)
- turn a place inside out idiom
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