Search
Search verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.
Understand and search are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Understand" instead a verb "Search".
Understand
Understand verb - To form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information.
Search and understand are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Search" instead a verb "Understand".
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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This attempt to understand their roots can be a subtle (or not) metaphor for the search for self-understanding.
Source: Orphan's Ordeal -
Yet she's also starting to understand emotion, particularly the search for challenge.
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Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Touma, by the very nature of his character and Imagine Breaker, can't really understand why other characters would go to such lengths to search for power.
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