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zoeken — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • hunt verb To chase and kill wild animals for food or sport.
  • search verb To look carefully in order to find someone or something.
  • seek verb To try to find something.

Senses

zoeken is used for these senses in English:

  • grep (by extension) To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).
  • hunt (ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
  • look for (transitive) To seek.
  • search (intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.
  • seek (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

hunt — full definition

  1. verb To chase and kill wild animals for food or sport.
  2. verb To search thoroughly for something.
  3. noun The act or expedition of hunting.

search — full definition

  1. verb To look carefully in order to find someone or something.
  2. noun An act of searching for something.

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