| VERB | contact | look for, search, seek | try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of |
|---|---|---|---|
| emotion | look for, anticipate, look to | be excited or anxious about |
| Meaning | try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Model | The banks look for the check; Sam cannot look for Sue; They look for the water | |
| Synonyms | search, seek | |
| Narrower | browse, surf | look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular |
| divine | search by divining, as if with a rod | |
| dredge, drag | search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | |
| feel | grope or feel in search of something | |
| finger | search for on the computer | |
| fish, angle | seek indirectly | |
| gather | look for (food) in nature | |
| grope, fumble | Feel about uncertainly or blindly | |
| grub | search about busily | |
| hunt | seek, search for | |
| leave no stone unturned | search thoroughly and exhaustively | |
| quest for, go after, quest after, pursue | go in search / search / search of or hunt for | |
| scour | Examine minutely | |
| seek out | look for a specific person or thing | |
| shop, browse | shop around | |
| want | hunt or look for | |
| See also | look | perceive with attention |
| Spanish | buscar, explorar, procurar, registrar | |
| Catalan | buscar, cercar, escorcollar, registrar | |
| Meaning | Be excited or anxious about. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | anticipate, look to | |
| Narrower | apprehend, quail at | anticipate with dread or anxiety |
| Broader | expect, look, await, wait | look ... / look forward to the probable occurrence of |
| Spanish | esperar | |
| Catalan | esperar | |
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