英语词汇“trawl”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

verb | noun

trawltrawl1 /trɔl/ verb [intransitive, transitive]

ETYMOLOGYtrawl¹

Origin: 1500-1600 Middle Dutch tragelen, from tragel net pulled along behind, probably from Latin tragula; ➔ TRAIL¹

VERB TABLE

trawl

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	trawl
	he, she, it	trawls
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	trawled
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have trawled
	he, she, it	has trawled
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had trawled
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will trawl
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have trawled

Continuous Form
Present	I	am trawling
	he, she, it	is trawling
	you, we, they	are trawling
Past	I, he, she, it	was trawling
	you, we, they	were trawling
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been trawling
	he, she, it	has been trawling
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been trawling
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be trawling
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been trawling

1to fish by dragging a special wide net behind a boat2to search through a lot of documents, lists, etc. in order to find out information: trawl through Investigators trawled through the records.