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chercher — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • get verb To come to have or receive something; to obtain.
  • 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

chercher is used for these senses in English:

  • get (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
  • hunt (ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
  • look for (transitive) To seek.
  • mess with (colloquial) To diss; to put down.
  • pick up (transitive) To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
  • search (intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.
  • seek (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

get — full definition

  1. verb To come to have or receive something; to obtain.
  2. verb To become, or to cause someone or something to become, a certain way (often with an adjective).
  3. verb To fetch or bring something.
  4. verb To arrive at or reach a place or state.
  5. verb To understand something.

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.

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