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quest collapse: the act of searching for something; "a quest for diamonds"; seek alms, as for religious purposes; search the trail of (game); "The dog went off and quested"; make a search (for); "Things that die with their eyes open and questing"; "The animal came questing through the forest"

strafe collapse: an attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane; "the next morning they carried out a strafe of enemy airfields"; attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane; "civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country's surrender"

seek collapse: the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk; inquire for; "seek directions from a local"; go to or towards; "a liquid seeks its own level"; try to get or reach; "seek a position"; "seek an education"; "seek happiness"

hawk collapse: diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail; an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations; hunt with hawks; "the tribes like to hawk in the desert"

hunt collapse: the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport; the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts; an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for submarines"; an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport; British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859); United States architect (1827-1895); Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910); pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods"; search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these forests"; seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"; oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"; yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose yawed"; chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"

search collapse: an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"; boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search"; the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone; the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"; 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"; 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"; subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"; search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"

bombard collapse: address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage; "The speaker was barraged by an angry audience"; "The governor was bombarded with requests to grant a pardon to the convicted killer"; throw bombs at or attack with bombs; "The Americans bombed Dresden"

pursue collapse: follow in or as if in pursuit; "The police car pursued the suspected attacker"; "Her bad deed followed her and haunted her dreams all her life"; carry further or advance; "Can you act on this matter soon?"

snipe collapse: a gunshot from a concealed location; Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks; hunt or shoot snipe

ferret out collapse: search and discover through persistent investigation; "She ferreted out the truth"

sporting collapse: involving risk or willingness to take a risk; "a sporting chance"; "sporting blood"; relating to or used in sports; "sporting events"; "sporting equipment"

exploration collapse: to travel for the purpose of discovery; a careful systematic search; a systematic consideration; "he called for a careful exploration of the consequences"

cannonade collapse: intense and continuous artillery fire; attack with canons or artillery

search warrant collapse: a warrant authorizing law enforcement officials to search for objects or people involved in the commission of a crime and to produce them in court; the warrant describes the locations where the officials may search

mortar collapse: a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range; a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle; used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall; plaster with mortar; "mortar the wall"

searching collapse: exploring thoroughly; having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism"

rummage collapse: a jumble of things to be given away; search haphazardly; "We rummaged through the drawers"

follow up collapse: increase the effectiveness or success of by further action; "The doctor followed up the surgery with radiation"

dragnet collapse: a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals); "caught in the police dragnet"

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