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 Verb.

Pronunciation and accent: rɪsɜːtʃ, or riːsɜːtʃ.

Etymology: from obsolete French recercher (modern French rechercher), which is analysed into re- + chercher (= to search).

Transitively: 1. To make researches into (a subject); to attempt to become thoroughly acquainted with data about (something or someone), by means of books, records, oral relations, magazines, Internet pages, etc.

Synonyms: to search exhaustively; to investigate.

Translation: rechercher, in French; investigar, in Spanish; ricercare, in Italian.

At times, researching a history of the city is rather like reading a transcript of a conversation in which one participant’s contribution has been deleted.

Richard Miles… Carthage Must Be Destroyed

… skills to research history.

Rebecca Bush, K. Paul… Art and Public History

As early as 1983, LiehMak, after researching lesbianism in Hong Kong, concluded that the reluctance of Chinese lesbians to come out of the closet must not be construed as the result of social disapproval of lesbianism in particular…

Edmond Coleman, W. Chou… Eroticism in Chinese Societies

The students had demanded to know if Columbia was part of this organization that researched military strategy. The university had refused to confirm or deny participation…

Mark Kurlansky… 1968

Eventually, he was drawn to the university library, where he read up on the history of the plague and researched funerary practices common during pandemics.

Mark Collins… Vampire Forensics

A way to defeat them can be found, if expertise can be pooled. I have researched you, Apothecary Dee. I have been studying you for some time now. I have seen your apothecarial records; read your reasons for wishing to enter the profession in your apprentice statement.

Liz Williams… The Poison Master

2. To make researches or an investigation for (a book, a magazine, or the like).

A Biography of Lincoln’s Friend […], which is carefully researched and well written but unfortunately not footnoted.

Adam Goodheart… The Civil War…

This book was researched at the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library of the University of Michigan.

Frances Gies… Life in a Medieval Village

For a thoroughly researched article on the history of this first film, see Karel Margry…

Saul Friedländer… The Years of Extermination

If the plan failed […], Germany’s future depended on improvisation rather than a well researched backup plan.

Alan Dale… The Super Summary…

I wish to extend particular appreciation to the Columbia University Libraries, including Butler Library, the Barnard College Library, and the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, whose collections I often consulted while researching this book.

Laurence Bergreen… Marco Polo

Intransitively: to make researches; to pursue a course of research. With the preposition into, in, on.

We researched on blogs.

Alex Pavitt… The Boys Who Cycled Europe

Words derived from RESEARCH: researcher, researchable, reˈsearchful, reˈsearchist, research (n.), researching.