search
/sɜːtʃ/ verbDefinition
B1 to try to find someone or something: He searched in his pockets for some change.
B1 to use a computer to find information, especially on the Internet: I searched the Internet to find cheap flights to Barcelona.
› If the police search a place or a person, they look to see if they are hiding anything illegal, such as drugs: Police are still searching the forest for the missing girl.
(Definition of search verb from the Cambridge Essential Dictionary
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