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track down

phrasal verb
If you track down someone or something, you find them, or find information about them, after a difficult or long search.
She had spent years trying to track down her parents. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
I don't know where that old story came from, I've never been able to track it down. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
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track down in British English

verb
(tr, adverb)
to find by tracking or pursuing

track down in American English

1. 
to pursue until caught, as by following tracks
2. 
to investigate fully or search for until found
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Examples of 'track down' in a sentence
track down

I'll go and have a quick word, then we'll track down Mr Derringer.
Fraser, Anthea THE GOSPEL MAKERS
The last time I had flown with him into the Sahara to track down hijacked weapons.
Brierley, David SNOWLINE
There had been some spectacular busts in recent history, but even the FBI could not work fast enough to track down these people.
Karin Slaughter KISSCUT (2002)

In other languages
track down

British English: track down /træk daʊn/ VERB
If you track down someone or something, you find them after a long and difficult search.
It took two years to track him down.
  • American English: track down
  • Arabic: يَتَتَبَّعُ
  • Brazilian Portuguese: localizar
  • Chinese: 追查到
  • Croatian: pronaći
  • Czech: vypátrat
  • Danish: opspore
  • Dutch: opsporen
  • European Spanish: localizar
  • Finnish: jäljittää
  • French: dépister
  • German: aufspüren
  • Greek: εντοπίζω
  • Italian: rintracciare
  • Japanese: 跡をたどって見つけ出す
  • Korean: 찾아내다
  • Norwegian: spore opp
  • Polish: wytropić
  • European Portuguese: localizar
  • Romanian: a depista
  • Russian: выслеживать
  • Latin American Spanish: localizar
  • Swedish: spåra upp
  • Thai: ติดตามจนพบ
  • Turkish: izini sürmek
  • Ukrainian: вистежувати
  • Vietnamese: tìm ra

Chinese translation of 'track down'

track down

vt

  1. [prey, criminal] 追踪(蹤)到 (zhuīzōng dào)
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