trawl

CEFRB2

/tɹɔːl/

verb · noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To search through many things to find something.

  2. 02

    noun

    A large net pulled through water to catch fish.

Examples

  • Our experienced travel consultants can help you to trawl through the best deals around.

  • I embarked on a trawl through my uncle's papers in search of his missing will.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • /tɹoːl/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.

  2. An exhaustive search.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A net or dragnet used for trawling.

More examples

In context

  • The fisherman went out to trawl the deep sea for shrimp.

  • They used a large net to trawl for fish along the coast.

  • We need to trawl through the data to find meaningful patterns.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

16th century, borrowed from Dutch tragelen (“to pull with a towline, trawl”), from Middle Dutch traghelen, from traghel (“dragnet”) (presumably from Latin tragula (“dragnet”)), and as such root-cognate with English drag and dray.