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单词 poke about/around
释义

poke about/around

informal Look around a place, typically in search of something: she poked about in the cupboard for a minute or two...
  • I roll over and hear our daughter poking around the house in search of dyed eggs.
  • Vittorio spies on Frank as he pokes around the parlor, searching for a hidden compartment.
  • Ramsey said search teams looked in burrows and sometimes poked around with sticks.

Synonyms

search, hunt, rummage (around), forage, scrabble, grub, root about/around, scavenge, fish about/around, rake around, feel around, grope around, nose around, ferret (about/around);
pry into, ransack, rake through, sift through, go through, shuffle through, rifle through, scour, comb, explore, probe
British informal rootle (around)
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