scrunge
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toothcomb
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Sherlock
ransack
beagle
oversearch
spear biscuits
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glaum
search
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nose out
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skirr
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rifle
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grub
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bird dog
eager
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gaffle
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peer
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leave no stone unturned
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- In pursuit of, seeking.
- In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.
- In spite of.
- Behind.
- Next in importance or rank.
- Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to.
- Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
- Used to indicate recent completion of an activity
- As a result of.
conj
- Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause.
adj
adv
verb
verb
- To search for, to try to find.
- As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object.
- To make sure of, to see to.
- To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
- To give an appearance of being.
- To express or manifest by a look.
- To face or present a view.
- To expect or anticipate.
- As an intransitive verb, often with "at".
- To appear, to seem.
noun
- A facial expression.
- Physical appearance, visual impression.
- The action of looking; an attempt to see.
intj
verb
noun
verb
verb
verb
verb
verb
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- To lengthen when pulled.
- To lengthen by pulling.
- To pull tight.
- To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
- To extend to a limit point
- To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- To increase.
- To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
noun
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- An act of stretching.
- A jail or prison term.
- Term of address for a tall person.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A length of time.
- Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- A stretch limousine.
- The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- A segment or length of material.
- A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
verb
- To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also riffle)
- To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
- To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
- To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
- To commit robbery or theft.
- To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
- To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
- To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
noun
verb
- To search through (thoroughly).
- Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
noun
- A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A lot, plenty.
- A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- The act of raking.
- In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
- A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
verb
- Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
- Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
- Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
- Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
- Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
- Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
- Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
- To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
- Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
- To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
- To snore, especially loudly.
- To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
- Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
- To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
noun
- A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
- The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
- A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
- The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.
- An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.
- A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
- A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
- A group of disorganized things.
noun
- The desire to purchase goods and services.
- An urgent request.
- An order.
- The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
- A forceful claim for something.
- A requirement.
- More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.
verb
verb
- To seek out.
- A multiservice tactical brevity code requesting configuration of sensors.
- To watch closely.
noun
- A dog, especially a pointer, used in shooting to retrieve the dead birds.
- A tout.
- A person who seeks out real estate investment opportunities in exchange for a fee.
- A person who tries to steal someone else's romantic partner
- A radar detector (for detecting police speed traps).
- A hyperextension exercise performed lying on the knees, with one arm and the opposite leg lifted.
verb
- To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
- To make equal in rank.
- To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
noun
- Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
- Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
- A look; a glance.
- A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
- Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
- A comrade; a companion; an associate.
verb
noun
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
verb
- To search rapidly.
- To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
- To move sideways when bouncing.
- To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
- To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
- To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
- To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence.
- To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
- To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
- To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
- To move swiftly.
- To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
- To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
- To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
noun
- The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- Special interest of an autistic person.
- Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
- Rapid circular motion.
- A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
- A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.
- A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
- A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.
- A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
- A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion.
- An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the rotating shaft and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.
- A single play of a record by a radio station.
phrase
verb
- To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- To hit or kick off target.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- To fish with a dragnet.
noun
- A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- A prison sentence of three months.
- A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- Street, as in 'main drag'.
- A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- Witch house music.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
- The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A mailcoach.
- Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
noun
- One who searches.
- An officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.
- An officer who apprehended idlers on the street during church hours in Scotland.
- A customs officer responsible for searching ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.
- An inspector of leather.
- A sieve or strainer.
- An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities.
- An implement for sampling butter.
- An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.
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