track down

as inlocate

as inlook up
as inpursue
as inscour
as inscout
as insearch
as inseek
as intag
as inbeep
as intrack/track down
as inturn up
as inchase
as indetect
as inferret out
as infind
as inhound

Word Origin & History

late 15c., "footprint, mark left by anything," from Old French trac "track of horses, trace" (mid-15c.), possibly from a Germanic source (cf. Middle Low German treck, Dutch trek "drawing, pulling;" see trek). Meaning "lines of rails for drawing trains" is from 1805. Meaning "branch of athletics involving a running track" is recorded from 1905. Meaning "single recorded item" is from 1904, originally in reference to phonograph records. Meaning "mark on skin from repeated drug injection" is first attested 1964.

Track record (1955) is a figurative use from racing, "performance history" of an individual car, runner, horse, etc.(1907, but the phrase was more common in sense "fastest speed recorded at a particular track"). To make tracks "move quickly" is American ...

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What I must do now is track down the source of the orders that keep this war going.

We may be able to render a great service to our country if we can track down a spy.

Crazy Hoss, you put on them dawgs to the scent, track down this Ryan, and kill him.

And so we parted, with no shadow on our friendship, on the track down to the punt.

The three followed the track down to where ...

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