Adjective searching has 3 senses
  1. inquisitory, probing, searching - diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation; "a probing inquiry"; "a searching investigation of their past dealings"
    Antonyms: uninquiring, uninquisitive (indirect, via inquiring)
  2. searching, trenchant - having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism"
    Antonyms: unintelligent, stupid (indirect, via intelligent)
  3. searching - exploring thoroughly
    Antonyms:
    nonexploratory, nonexplorative, unexploratory, unexplorative (indirect, via exploratory)
,Verb search has 4 senses
  1. search, seek, look for - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"
    Derived forms: noun search1, noun searcher2, noun searcher1
    Sample sentences:
    Sam cannot search Sue
    The banks search the check
    They search the water
  2. search, look - search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
    --2 is one way to examine, see
    Derived forms: noun search1, noun searcher2, noun searcher1
    Sample sentences:
    The men search the area for animals
    The men search for animals in the area
  3. research, search, explore - inquire into
    --3 is one way to investigate, look into
    Derived forms: noun search2, noun searcher1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. search - subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"
    --4 is one way to
    examine, see
    Derived forms: noun search5, noun searcher2, noun searcher1
    Sample sentence:
    They want to search the prisoners
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