to trawl
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4.6
- verb
- /trɔl/
:
examinar
- The researcher had to trawl through extensive data to find the rare species of fish.
- trawling for clients
And in some ways, I'm quite glad that I don't have to trawl through loads of trolling tweets in order to demonstrate how women are treated in the public domain.
- And in some ways, I'm quite glad that I don't have to trawl through loads of trolling tweets in order to demonstrate how women are treated in the public domain.
Examples
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Wikipedia is probably a more reliable source for novices than trawling random blogs.
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I came across a paper in this vein while trawling through Google Scholar recently.
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Great answer, spent way too long trawling through to get nothing.
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One by one, they're going to trawl through our brains, looking for new ideas, whatever that means.
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In the meantime, I'm off to trawl through my old photos and bang my head on a wall!
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We trawled through various memoirs together, looking for strategies that we could use in our own writing.
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As an MA student, I have to admit to hating trawling through hundreds of online journals.
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Even should you choose to trawl through the 302 pages of the full NICE guidance, it is difficult to find any answers to this rather crucial question.
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I visited him in 2008, and we had great fun trawling through library records and visiting Atlanta, Charleston, Savannah, etc.
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In wishing to further expose this hoard, Scharf was appointed to trawl through British collections, looking for potential lenders of old master paintings.
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Synonyms
∞
1.0
To try to find something or someone by looking carefully
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3.3
To search a place very carefully to find something
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3.7
To look carefully through information to find what is important
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4.7
To look deeply into a subject to find information
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5.1
To search a place carefully to find someone or something
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3.9
To look through many things carefully to find something specific
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4.4
Search carefully to find hidden facts or details
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3.9
To search everywhere for something that is lost
To find something after a careful search
To search carefully through things in a small place like a bag or box
To search through a place or container in a messy way
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A large cone-shaped net pulled along the sea bottom or through deep water to catch fish
How Thoroughly
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4.6
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3.7
66
3.3
∞
1.0
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2.8
35
3.8
127
2.7
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb trawl is used for searching because it grew from the fishing idea of 'dragging' a net, so to trawl the internet or records is like pulling a net through information to catch what you need.