Synonyms of fished

fished

verb

past tense of fish

as in fumbled

to search for something blindly or uncertainly

take a minute to fish for some change to drop in the donation box

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fumbled
• looked
• reached
• felt
• scrabbled
• groped
• hunted
• grabbed
• clutched
• snatched
• captured
• dredged
• scoured
• combed
• raked
• rummaged
• seized
• cast about
• nailed
• rifled
• sought (out)
• nabbed
• corralled
• grabbled
• dug (through)
• ransacked
• got

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fished

That’s a 40% discount on a rod that, by the retailer’s own assessment, has barely been fished. — William Jones, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2026

Many researchers were convinced that the group must also be unfaithful and fished around to find the relationship in Birman’s approach or Moody’s method. — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 24 July 2026

While Stan and Bud fished the shore, Ed and I sat in a canoe casting into the tail of the current. — Marc Terziev, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026

Because the pond has been very fished. — Michael Schneider, Variety, 27 May 2026

The falls are named after the Shoshone (or Shoshoni), a Native American tribe who lived in the area and fished on the Snake River. — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2026

Security agents fished VIPs from the crowd, among them Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and senior White House advisers Stephen Miller and Dan Scavino. — Calvin Woodward, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026

Eriksson Ek immediately fished the milestone puck out of the back of the net. — Michael Russo, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026

The story goes back to 1913 when Sen̓áḵw was a coastal village where Squamish people hunted and fished. — Alex Mayyasi, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026