tracked down
Hunted and discovered
Tracked down means to find someone or something after a determined search.
The image is of following tracks or traces until you locate your quarry: Police tracked down the suspect through cell phone records.
It implies effort and persistence—you track down a rare book, a long-lost relative, or the source of a problem.
It took me weeks to track down the leak in the basement.
- pursuedWent after persistently
- hot pursuitImmediate pursuit of suspect
- locatedFound the position of
- tracedFollowed back to origin
- soughtAttempted to find
found · hunted · detected · smoking gun · uncovered · apprehended · brought to justice · pinpoint · cornered · identified · paper trail · trail · chased · spotted · revealed · captured · surveillance · whereabouts
tracked downstumbled upon
Found unexpectedly
stumbled across · happened upon · chanced upon · came across · ran into
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