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say it: SUR-ching
searching is an adjective meaning "diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation". It carries 3 recorded senses.
diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation
“a probing inquiry”
“a searching investigation of their past dealings”
having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect
“searching insights”
“trenchant criticism”
exploring thoroughly
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for searching come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.