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VERB:To make a thorough search of: comb, forage, ransack, scour1. Slang : shake down. Idioms: beat the bushes, leave no stone unturned, look (or search) high and low, look (or search) up and down, turn inside out, turn upside down. See INVESTIGATE.
 
 
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