verb/fu.je/
to search (place, thing); to search, frisk (person); to go into, investigate (question, issue); to rummage, delve (dans in); to go through one's pockets
“Il fouillait ses souvenirs, ne se rappelait pas une heure de plénitude.” — He searched his memories and recalled not a single hour of contentment.
From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *fodiclāre < *fodiculāre, from Latin fodicāre, from fodere. Compare fouir.