track down

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

track down (third-person singular simple present tracks down, present participle tracking down, simple past and past participle tracked down)

1. (idiomatic) To hunt for or locate; to search for; to find.

   I need to track down a computer so I can check my e-mails.

   • 2014 October 27, Taylor Swift, Ryan Tedder (lyrics and music), “I Know Places (Taylor's Version)”, in 1989 (Taylor's Version)‎^[1], performed by Taylor Swift, published 2023 October 27:

     Baby, I know places we won't be found, and
     They'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see track,‎ down.

   She'll track him down the mountain and catch him before long.

   The hurricane tracked down past the cape before blowing east.

   The cameraman tracked the plane down so we have a recording of the crash.

Translations

to search, hunt

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 搵到 / 揾到 (wan² dou^3-2), 查獲 / 查获 (caa⁴ wok⁶), 追尋 / 追寻 (zeoi¹ cam⁴)

  Hokkien: 揣著, 揣着 (chhōe-tio̍h, chhē-tio̍h), 查獲 / 查获 (cha-he̍k), 追尋 / 追寻 (tui-sîm)

  Mandarin: 找到 (zhǎo dào), 查獲 / 查获 (zh) (cháhuò), 追尋 / 追寻 (zh) (zhuīxún)

• Czech: vysledovat, vypátrat (cs)
• Danish: opspore
• Dutch: opsporen (nl)
• Esperanto: serĉi (eo)
• Finnish: jäljittää (fi)
• French: traquer (fr), dénicher (fr), débusquer (fr), localiser (fr), dépister (fr)
• Galician: rastrexar
• German: aufstöbern (de), ausfindig machen (de), aufspüren (de)
• Greek: εντοπίζω (el) (entopízo)
• Hungarian: lenyomoz (hu)
• Indonesian: melacak (id)
• Italian: rintracciare (it), scovare (it), localizzare (it)
• Japanese: 追い詰める (ja) (oitsumeru), 〜を見つけ出す
• Polish: wytropić
• Portuguese: rastrear (pt), localizar (pt)
• Romanian: da (ro), da de urmă
• Russian: высле́живать (ru) impf (vysléživatʹ), вы́следить (ru) pf (výsleditʹ), отсле́живать (ru) impf (otsléživatʹ), отследи́ть (ru) pf (otsledítʹ)
• Spanish: rastrear (es), localizar (es)
• Swedish: spåra (sv), förfölja (sv)
• Ukrainian: висте́жувати impf (vystéžuvaty), ви́стежити pf (výstežyty), вислі́джувати impf (vyslídžuvaty), ви́слідити pf (výslidyty)
• Veps: kacelta
• Yakut: ирдээ (irdee)