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/sɜːt͡ʃ/

verb

(transitive) To look in (a place) for something. / (intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly. / (transitive, now rare) To look for, seek.

I will search for my keys in the living room.

意味（1）

(transitive) To look in (a place) for something.

I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.

意味（2）

(intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.

The police are searching for evidence in his flat.

意味（3）

(transitive, now rare) To look for, seek.

To search the God of loue, her Nymphes she sent / Throughout the wandring forrest euery where[…].

意味（4）

(transitive, obsolete) To probe or examine (a wound).

Now torne we to the xj kynges that retorned vnto a cyte that hyghte Sorhaute / the whiche cyte was within kynge Vryens / and ther they refresshed hem as wel as they myght / and made leches serche theyr woundys and sorowed gretely for the dethe of her peple

意味（5）

(obsolete) To examine; to try; to put to the test.