資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Searching \Search"ing\, a.
   Exploring thoroughly; scrutinizing; penetrating; trying; as,
   a searching discourse; a searching eye. ``Piercing,
   searching, biting, cold.'' --Dickens. -- {Search"ing*ly},
   adv. -- {Search"ing*ness}, n.