 Partee (1974, 97) objects that this cannot be the whole story, since search verbs are not all synonyms (‘groping for’ doesn’t mean exactly the same as ‘rummaging about for’), but den Dikken, Larson, &amp; Ludlow (1996) and Parsons (1997, 381) suggest that the search verb itself be used in place of ‘endeavor’. So we get