dragnetnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdræɡ.net/us/ˈdræɡ.net/a series of actions taken by the police that are intended to catch criminals:
The police have widened their dragnet in their search for the killer.
a heavy net that is pulled along the bottom of a river or area of water when searching for something
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Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- once-over
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- seek
- strip search
- trail
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
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