research
/ˈɹiˌsɝt͡ʃ/ verb B2- To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
- To make an extensive investigation into.
- To search again.
- To receive a certain response in market research. · Agency and bank staff told the newspaper the ad researched well.
He/she/it researches · Past researched · Past participle researched · -ing form researching
Verb forms
- Base form
- research
- He/she/it
- researches
- Past
- researched
- Past participle
- researched
- -ing form
- researching
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Returning to France, I spent some months in a research into the coal-tar derivatives, which I conducted in a laboratory at Montpellier, in the south of France.
He asked people to give money for cancer research.
Devon added amazing research about plastic waste to their shared file.
Research does support this idea to some extent, especially for older students.
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