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Webster 1913 Edition

Searching

Search′ing

,
Adj.
Exploring thoroughly; scrutinizing; penetrating; trying;
as, a
searching
discourse; a
searching
eye
.
“Piercing, searching, biting, cold.”
Dickens.
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Search′ing-ly
,
adv.
–
Search′ing-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition

Searching

SEARCHING

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pp.
serch'ing.
1. Looking into or over; exploring; examining; inquiring; seeking; investigating.
2. a. Penetrating; trying; close; as a searching discourse.

SEARCHING

,
Noun.
search'ing. Exanination; severe inquisition. Judges 5.

Definition 2024

searching

searching

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searching

  1. present participle of search

Adjective

searching ‎(comparative more searching, superlative most searching)

  1. (of an investigation, etc.) Thorough.

Noun

searching ‎(plural searchings)

  1. search; hunt
    • 2007 November 4, Mark Oppenheimer, “The Turning of an Atheist”, in New York Times:
      Depending on whom you ask, Antony Flew is either a true convert whose lifelong intellectual searchings finally brought him to God or a senescent scholar possibly being exploited by his associates.

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