track down
[verb]
Synonyms: find, dig up, discover, hunt down, run to earth or ground, sniff out, trace, unearth

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English Thesaurus: find, discover, locate, come across something, stumble on/across something, ...

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track somebody/something ↔ down phrasal verb (see also track)
to find someone or something that is difficult to find by searching or looking for information in several different places:
I finally managed to track down the book you wanted in a shop near the station.
Detectives had tracked her down in California.

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find to get or see something that you have been searching for:
Have you found your passport yet?
Police later found the car abandoned in a wood.
discover to find something that was hidden or that people did not know about before:
A second bomb has been discovered in south London.
locate formal to find the exact position of something:
The airline are still trying to locate my luggage.
Online maps make it easy to locate almost any place in the world.
come across something to find something unexpectedly when you are not looking for it:
I came across some old letters from my father in my drawer.
stumble on/across something to find something unexpectedly, especially something very important:
They may have stumbled across some vital evidence.
Completely by chance we had stumbled on the biggest hit of the year.
trace to find someone or something that has disappeared, especially by a careful process of collecting information:
She had given up all hope of tracing her missing daughter.
track somebody/something down to find someone or something that is difficult to find by searching in different places:
I’ve been trying to track down a book that’s out of print.
The police managed to track down the killer.
unearth to find something that has been hidden or lost for a long time, by digging or searching for it:
In 1796, a carved stone was unearthed near the burial mound.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

track down
track down (someone/something)
to find someone or something after searching for them.
I'm trying to track down one of my old classmates from college.

My library assistant tracked down several references for me

My mother wanted to find the family who had taken care of my father during the war, and somehow she was able to track them down.

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track down something
track down (someone/something)
to find someone or something after searching for them.
I'm trying to track down one of my old classmates from college.

My library assistant tracked down several references for me

My mother wanted to find the family who had taken care of my father during the war, and somehow she was able to track them down.

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track down
• track (someone or something) down
to search for someone or something
I have been trying to track down an old Beatles album for many months.

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track something down
• track (someone or something) down
to search for someone or something
I have been trying to track down an old Beatles album for many months.

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track down
v. To find by or as if by following tracks or a trail.
The hunters tracked down game in the forest.
She spent weeks in the library tracking the reference down in all their hooks on the subject.
Compare: HUNT DOWN.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

track someone down
• track (someone or something) down
to search for someone or something
I have been trying to track down an old Beatles album for many months.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

track down someone
track down (someone/something)
to find someone or something after searching for them.
I'm trying to track down one of my old classmates from college.

My library assistant tracked down several references for me

My mother wanted to find the family who had taken care of my father during the war, and somehow she was able to track them down.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲