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(idiomatic, intransitive) To enquire of several people.
v
To confront with questions, demands or requests.
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(obsolete, , or rare and nonstandard) Alternative spelling of browse [To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.]
n
A short visit, usually for social purposes.
v
Synonym of call the shots
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(obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.
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(transitive) To formally announce one's arrival at a location or event (usually a hotel) to a proprietor or employee of that location or event in order to secure admission, accommodations, or other services.
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To look after or inquire about someone's well-being.
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(transitive, intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
v
to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing
n
(rare) One who is discovered.
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(transitive, law) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
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(transitive, now rare) To search (something) without finding what one was looking for.
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(obsolete, intransitive) To search; to try to find something.
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(obsolete) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
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(transitive) To examine or investigate something systematically.
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(intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
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(transitive) To seek thoroughly (for); seek out.
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(obsolete, transitive, UK dialectal) To learn by trial; experience.
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To attend to one's duties.
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To invite (someone) to visit one's house.
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(transitive) to search into, investigate
v
(transitive) To inquire into or study in order to ascertain facts or information.
v
(intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
v
(transitive) To search for; to seek.
v
To obtain information about something from a reference book.
v
(theater) To enter the stage.
v
To converge and finally touch or intersect.
n
An open and/or public audition, especially for actors and actresses.
n
An appearance to perform in public, for example in a drama, film, on a musical album, as a sports contestant etc.
v
(transitive) To seek out; actively or diligently search for; investigate; research.
v
To observe secretly or unintentionally.
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(transitive) To watch over.
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To travel through an area in examination or survey.
n
(rare) A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny.
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(intransitive) To occur in a certain manner.
n
(idiomatic) A useful piece of advice.
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(figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
v
(video games) To cause a special event to occur.
n
(informal) An invitation, especially one which is made in an elaborate manner, in which the invitee is asked to accompany the inviter to a prom.
v
(transitive) To pursue something to the end.
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To perform for an audience.
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(idiomatic) To explore or watch for; to ask around; to investigate.
v
(idiomatic) To test something or someone; to evaluate, scrutinize or explore by testing or experimentation.
v
(intransitive) To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
v
(transitive, now rare) To look for, seek.
adj
(rare) Tending or inclined to search.
v
To contact (someone); to meet (someone) and talk to them about.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.
v
(now rare) To try to find or attain; to seek.
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To go to a particular place to augment one's wealth or to find success.
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(transitive) To try to locate; to search for.
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(intransitive) To go sightseeing; to visit places of interest in a city, town or geographical area.
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(informal) To market a product or service by means of purported market research.
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(transitive, US) To keep someone or something under surveillance.
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(Canada, transitive) To review the solutions to a test or other assessment with a class.
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Alternative form of show who's boss [(intransitive, idiomatic) To demonstrate oneself to be dominant; to show that one has the upper hand.]
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Alternative form of show who's boss [(intransitive, idiomatic) To demonstrate oneself to be dominant; to show that one has the upper hand.]
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(transitive) To explore how (someone) responds to something; To feel someone out.
n
(business) An encounter where customers and business engage to exchange information, provide services, or handle transactions.
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To bring something forward in order to display or use it.
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(transitive) To examine; explore; investigate.
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(transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
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(transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
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(transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
n
(firefighting) Any potentially hazardous condition or situation that may make a fire more dangerous.
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