beat about

Verb

Meaning

search anxiously

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

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Hypernyms

research search explore

Examples

When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us. Kate Bernheimer

To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis. William Osler

Close letter words and terms

beat a retreat beat a ruffle beat a tattoo beat about the bush beat all beat all hollow