trawl
/tɹɔl/ verb C2- To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl. · The fisherman went out to trawl the deep sea for shrimp.
- To fish from a slow-moving boat. · They used a large net to trawl for fish along the coast.
- To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area. · We need to trawl through the data to find meaningful patterns.
He/she/it trawls · Past trawled · Past participle trawled · -ing form trawling
Verb forms
- Base form
- trawl
- He/she/it
- trawls
- Past
- trawled
- Past participle
- trawled
- -ing form
- trawling
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SOME FISHERMEN were out trawling their nets.
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