词汇 | search out |
释义 | Phr V search out searches, searching, searched search out sb/sth or search sb/sth out to look for someone or something for a long time until you find themWhile I was in Australia, I searched out my cousin who I hadn't seen for 20 years. search out sth/sb • search sth/sb out to spend a long time looking someone or something before finding them: NATO pilots were ordered to search out heavy weapons and destroy them. At eighteen I decided it was time to search out my biological mother.■ SIMILAR TO: locate formal search outTo hunt, seek, or try to discover someone or something. A noun or pronoun can be used between "search" and "out." We've been searching out locations to shoot our new film. I have to search Sarah out to get the administrator password to the computer. search someone or something outto seek and find someone or something. I will search Fred out. I know he's here somewhere. We have to search out the key to the safe-deposit box. search outv. To seek and find someone or something: I managed to search out an old jazz album. She lost his address, but she was able to search him out using the Internet. |
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