Search out phrasal verb informal
To look for, seek out, or attempt to discover someone or something.
He decided to search out the truth of the matter.
They need to search out the treatments that work best for him.
I want to search out an old school friend.
To encounter or catch someone who is doing something that they are not prepared for and that reveals something embarrassing or shocking about them
If a person "casts around for someone or something", he/she looks around to find something/someone, or search for an idea.
To try to discover or understand the true facts about a situation before taking any action
Used to say one who finds something can keep it and does not need to give it back to the person who has lost it
1. If a person "looks up something", he/she tries to find a piece of information about it, typically from a reference book or on a computer.
2. If something "looks up", it is getting better or improving.
3. To contact someone if you are in the area where they live
The verb "search" should be conjugated according to its tense.
A problem or difficult circumstance
I'm short-sighted, so forgetting my glasses is a real hair in the butter for my sight.