To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect.
To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water.
Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.
A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
To beat (someone or something) with a stick.
To forcefully teach something.
To criticize harshly; to excoriate.
Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.