track down

track down
track down (someone/something) to find someone or something after searching for them.

I'm trying to track down one of my old classmates from college.

My library assistant tracked down several references for me

My mother wanted to find the family who had taken care of my father during the war, and somehow she was able to track them down.


New idioms dictionary. 2014.

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  • track down — track [n1] mark, print made by something clue, footmark, footprint, footstep, groove, impress, impression, imprint, indication, memorial, monument, path, print, record, remains, remnant, rut, scent, sign, slot, spoor, step, symbol, token, trace,… …   New thesaurus

  • Track Down — Título El asalto final (Hackers 2: Operación Takedown en España) Ficha técnica Dirección Joe Chappelle Guion Tsutomu Shimomura (libro) John Markof …   Wikipedia Español

  • track down — index ferret, hunt, locate, search, trace (follow) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • track down — verb pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) (Freq. 3) Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland The dogs are running deer The Duke hunted in these woods • Syn: ↑hunt, ↑run, ↑hunt down …   Useful english dictionary

  • track down — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms track down : present tense I/you/we/they track down he/she/it tracks down present participle tracking down past tense tracked down past participle tracked down to find someone or something after a long search… …   English dictionary

  • 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. [V P n (not pron)] She had spent years trying to track down her parents... [V n P] I don t know where that old… …   English dictionary

  • track down — Captain Pearce vowed that they would track down the killer Syn: discover, find, detect, hunt down/out, unearth, uncover, turn up, dig up, ferret out, bring to light …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • Track Down — Filmdaten Deutscher Titel: Takedown Originaltitel: Takedown Produktionsland: USA Erscheinungsjahr: 2000 Länge: 92 Minuten Originalsprache: Englisch …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • track down — verb To hunt for or locate; to search for; to find. I need to track down a computer so I can check my e mails …   Wiktionary

  • track down — phr verb Track down is used with these nouns as the object: ↑culprit, ↑killer, ↑murderer …   Collocations dictionary

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