look for
Verb
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Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of (synset 201318273)
"The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"subtypes:
- drag, dredge - search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
- finger - search for on the computer
- fumble, grope - feel about uncertainly or blindly
- divine - search by divining, as if with a rod
- browse, surf - look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular
- leave no stone unturned - search thoroughly and exhaustively
- hunt - seek, search for
- gather - look for (food) in nature
- want - hunt or look for; want for a particular reason
- scour - examine minutely
- seek out - look for a specific person or thing
- go after, pursue, quest after, quest for - go in search of or hunt for
- angle, fish - seek indirectly
- grub - search about busily
- feel - grope or feel in search of something
- browse, shop - shop around; not necessarily buying
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Be excited or anxious about (synset 201808928)
same as: anticipate, look to
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