searching

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Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈsɝtʃɪŋ/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈsɜːtʃɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃɪŋ

Verb

searching

  1. present participle of search

Adjective

searching (comparative more searching, superlative most searching)

  1. (of an investigation, etc.) Thorough.
  2. Looking over closely; penetrating; severe.
    a searching gaze; searching criticism

Noun

searching (plural searchings)

  1. search; hunt
    • 2007 November 4, Mark Oppenheimer, “The Turning of an Atheist”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      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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