search out

English

Verb

search out (third-person singular simple present searches out, present participle searching out, simple past and past participle searched out)

To find by searching.
Synonyms: ferret out, seek out, hunt out
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 1:33, column 2:
  Who went in the way before you to ſearch you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to ſhew you by what way ye ſhould goe, and in a cloud by day.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Obadiah 1:6, column 1:
  How are the things of Eſau ſearched out! how are his hid things ſought up!
- 1994 September, S Yoshikawa, “[Idiopathic osteoporosis]”, in Nihon Rinsho, volume 52, number 9, →PMID, abstract (in English), pages 2400–4:
  The presence of subclinical metabolic abnormality should be carefully searched out.
- 2011, Biblica, Holy Bible: New International Version, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, →ISBN, Deuteronomy 1:33:
  who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

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