Meaning & use
trawl
To search thoroughly through a large amount of material, or to fish by dragging a net through the water.
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Detectives had to trawl through hours of security footage to find the missing evidence.
The fishing boat cast its net to trawl the seabed for shrimp overnight.
A note on using this word
Trawl often implies a slow, thorough sweep through a large volume of material, whether literal water or figurative data.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A large net dragged along the sea bottom to catch fish.
The crew hauled in a trawl heavy with cod and flatfish.
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