search

search is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.
2. transitive verb. To inquire after; to look for; to seek.
3. transitive verb. To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.
4. transitive verb. To examine; to try; to put to the test.
5. intransitive verb. To seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration, or examination; to hunt.
6. transitive verb. The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination.
7. noun. an investigation seeking answers

   "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"

   "the outcome justified the search"

8. noun. boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas

   "right of search"

9. noun. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

   Synonyms: hunt, hunting

10. noun. the examination of alternative hypotheses

    "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"

11. noun. an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property

    "they wrote a program to do a table lookup"

    Synonyms: lookup

12. verb. inquire into

    "the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project"

    "He searched for information on his relatives on the web"

    Synonyms: explore, research

13. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: seek

14. verb. subject to a search

    "The police searched the suspect"

    "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"

15. verb. search or seek

    "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"

    "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"

    Synonyms: look

Synonyms

hunt, hunting, lookup, explore, research, seek, look

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in search:

arches, ascher, casher, chares, chaser, eschar, raches, recash

Common word forms

searched, searcher, searches, searchful, searching, searchable, searchless, searchment

Words from these letters

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