track down
phrasal verbtrack somebody/something down
- to find somebody/something after searching in several different places synonym trace
- The police have so far failed to track down the attacker.
- We finally managed to track him down to a retirement home in Sussex.
- I finally tracked the reference down in a book of quotations.
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