cercare — meaning in English
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English meaning
- attempt verb To try to do something, especially something difficult, without guaranteed success.
- hunt verb To chase and kill wild animals for food or sport.
- pursue verb To follow someone or something in order to catch them.
- search verb To look carefully in order to find someone or something.
- seek verb To try to find something.
- strive verb To make a great and sustained effort to achieve something.
- try verb To make an attempt at doing something.
Senses
cercare is used for these senses in English:
- attempt (archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.
- hunt (ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
- look for (transitive) To seek.
- look out (transitive, idiom) To find by looking: to hunt out.
- pursue (ambitransitive) To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase. [from 14th c.]
- pursue (transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.). [from late 14th c.]
- search (intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.
- seek (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
attempt — full definition
- verb To try to do something, especially something difficult, without guaranteed success.
- noun An effort to do something, especially one that may fail.
hunt — full definition
- verb To chase and kill wild animals for food or sport.
- verb To search thoroughly for something.
- noun The act or expedition of hunting.