Drill
Search
Search verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.
How words are described
| long | long drill | long search |
| complete | complete drill | complete search |
| alien | alien drill | alien search |
| proper | proper drill | proper search |
| Other adjectives: simple, actual, massive, big, huge, new. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Several times he pulls a Bavarian Fire Drill on guards he runs into to get them to search someplace else.
Source: Dressing as the Enemy
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Search and Drill. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/drill/search
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Search or Drill. 2016. Accessed July 31, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/drill/search.
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