fouiller

[fuje]
verbe transitif

[explorer - tiroir] to search (through)
fouille un peu tes poches, tu vas sûrement le retrouver! have a look in your pockets, you're sure to find it
[au cours d'une vérification] to search, to go through (inseparable)
fouiller des voyageurs
a. [rapidement] to frisk travellers
b. [de façon approfondie] to search travellers

2.	[creuser - suj: cochon, taupe] to dig fouiller un site archéologie to excavate a site

3.	[approfondir] to go deeply ou thoroughly il aurait fallu fouiller la question the question should have been researched more thoroughly

fouiller

[fuje]
verbe intransitif

1.	[creuser] to dig

[faire une recherche]
fouiller dans quelque chose
a. [légitimement] to go through something, to search something
b. [par indiscrétion] to rifle through something (péjoratif), to go through something
fouiller dans sa mémoire to search one's memory
fouiller dans son esprit to rack one's brains
fouiller dans le passé de quelqu'un to delve into somebody's past

se fouiller

verbe pronominal
(emploi réfléchi)
se fouiller les poches to go through one's pockets

une participation? il peut se fouiller! let him have a share in the profits? he can whistle for it ou not likely!