trawl

verb/trɔl/

Frequency rank: #17,953 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

to search through a large amount of something carefully and thoroughly.

Illustration for the English word “trawl”

Example sentence

The researchers decided to trawl through thousands of old records to find the data they needed.

Synonyms & related words

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