Quest and Searching

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Quest noun - An act or process of looking carefully or thoroughly for someone or something.

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Searching and quest are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Searching" instead a noun "Quest".

Nearby Words: question, quested, questing

Searching adjective - Exploring thoroughly.

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Quest and searching are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Quest" instead a noun "Searching".

Nearby Words: search, searched, searcher, searchable

In Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a player searching through desk cabinets for a quest item may instead have a small stockpile of human skulls spill out.

Source: Peek-A-Boo Corpse
So if you don't read the manual you can't complete the game without searching everywhere after getting the quest to find the "Third Eye" (this item doesn't appear before this quest is triggered).

Source: Read the Freaking Manual
In The Lord of the Rings Online there is a quest titled A Striking Absence of Boar which requires you to spend 30 minutes searching for boars in Evendim.

Source: Lampshade Hanging / Video Games

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