Rake
Rake verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.
Usage example: the pathetic sight of hungry children raking the garbage for food
Scour is a synonym for rake in search topic. In some cases you can use "Scour" instead a verb "Rake", when it comes to topics like cultivate, scrape, ransack, strafe.
Scour
Scour verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.
Usage example: the police scoured the city for the Typhoid Mary of this latest epidemic
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Synonyms for Scour
Rake is a synonym for scour in cultivate topic. You can use "Rake" instead a verb "Scour", if it concerns topics such as strafe, search thoroughly.
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Common collocations
| player | rake player | scour player |
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