How to Spell searching

searching

searching - verb

  • To examine in seeking something
  • To look through or explore by inspecting possible places of concealment or investigating suspicious circumstances
  • To read thoroughly : check
  • To examine for articles concealed on the person
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"searched the north field"

Etymology

Middle English cerchen, from Anglo-French cercher, sercher to travel about, investigate, search, from Late Latin circare to go about, from Latin circum round about