to examine carefully (a person, a person's clothes, inside furniture, a place etc) (in order to find a person or thing)
seeking to find something
Cases of word usage
1) to search (for) (forage)
2) to jump and run playfully; to pass the hands over (a person) to search for concealed weapons (frisk)
3) to feel about, search for (something), as one does in the dark (grope)
4) to go after (wild animals); to search (hunt)
5) the search for knowledge, especially the nature and meaning of existence; a calm, quiet attitude towards life, even in the face of unhappiness, danger, difficulty etc (philosophy)
6) a search (quest)
7) to search (a place) untidily and thoroughly (ransack)
8) a kind of gun with a long barrel, (to be) fired from the shoulder; to search (something) thoroughly in order to steal (rifle)
9) to examine (something) closely; to search through (stored information) to find a particular part; to use special equipment to examine (a person) for internal disease (scan)