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Cast about

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To try to find; look around; search. intransitive

    "The hounds cast about for the fox's trail."

  2. 2
    search anxiously wordnet
  3. 3
    To plan; plot; contrive. transitive

Etymology

From cast (“to try”) + about, perhaps dissimulated from becast (“to cast about, plot”). Compare also Old English costian (“to try, examine”). More at cast, costen.

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