etsiä — meaning in English

English meaning

• prospect noun The possibility or likelihood of something happening in the future.
• rout noun A crushing, disorganized defeat.
• search verb To look carefully in order to find someone or something.
• seek verb To try to find something.

Senses

etsiä is used for these senses in English:

• geocache (transitive) To hide or seek a geocache.
• look around To search a place.
• look for (transitive) To seek.
• prospect (intransitive) To search, as for gold.
• rout (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
• search (intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.
• seek (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

prospect — full definition

1. noun The possibility or likelihood of something happening in the future.
2. noun A person who might become a customer, employee, or promising athlete.
3. verb To search an area for valuable minerals such as gold.

rout — full definition

1. noun A crushing, disorganized defeat.
2. verb To defeat an opponent so thoroughly that they scatter or retreat in disorder.
3. verb To dig out or carve a groove into a surface, or to search through something thoroughly.

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