Synonyms of scour

scour

verb

as in to search

to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something

the police scoured the city for the Typhoid Mary of this latest epidemic

Synonyms & Similar Words

• search
• find
• scan
• locate
• comb
• explore
• examine
• investigate
• rake
• dredge
• survey
• rummage
• ransack
• inspect
• discover
• rifle
• hunt (through)
• dig (through)
• sort (through)
• troll
• scrutinize
• ascertain
• determine
• detect
• review
• learn
• check (out)
• peruse
• find out
• browse
• audit
• track (down)
• run down
• probe
• get
• prospect
• study
• hit (on or upon)
• descry
• poke (around)
• pat down
• shake down
• glance (over)
• frisk
• ferret (out)
• snoop
• look over
• scare up
• grub (about)
• skirmish

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hide
• lose
• abandon
• ignore
• neglect

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of scour

Vertiv has benefited since the debut of the widely accessible chatbot in late Nov., 2022 as investors scoured the market for secondary winners from the buildout of large language models and gargantuan data centers. —Samantha Subin, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2024

Clackamas County sheriff The discovery was made after more than 800 search hours involving dozens of officers, K9s and volunteers scouring more than 100 miles of trail. —Patrick Smith, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2024

One morning in mid-October of this year, while scouring Facebook marketplace to sell her old cameras to contribute to the fund, Vahedian came across an ad for a 2020 Toyota Tacoma posted by a car salesman in Peoria, Arizona. —David Chiu, People.com, 1 Dec. 2024

Detectives scouring the area recovered surveillance footage of the hit-and-run driver both on the moped and off, without the orange jacket. —Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 1 Dec. 2024

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