nose
verb [I usually + adv/prep] (SEARCH) /nəʊz/
/noʊz/ informalDefinition
› to look around or search in order to discover something, especially something that other people do not want you to find: There were some journalists nosing about/around. The police came in and started nosing into drawers and looking through papers.Searching
(Definition of nose 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
- dig verb (SEARCH)
- divine verb (SEARCH)
- leave no stone unturned idiom
- look sth out phrasal verb
- manhunt noun
- 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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