zoeken — meaning in English

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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