trawls

Verb

trawl (third-person singular simple present trawls, present participle trawling, simple past and past participle trawled)

1. (ambitransitive) To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.
   • The fisherman went out to trawl the deep sea for shrimp.
2. (intransitive) To fish from a slow-moving boat.
   • They used a large net to trawl for fish along the coast.
3. (intransitive) To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.
   • We need to trawl through the data to find meaningful patterns.

   Synonyms:

   rummage, forage, rifle

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