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Dragnet
01
a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
Grammatical Information
animacy status
inanimate
Composition
Compound
countable
plural form
dragnets
02
a method of searching for and capturing suspects or criminals by systematically covering an area
Examples
The police conducted a dragnet in the neighborhood to apprehend the suspect.
Lexical Tree
dragnet
drag
net
