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This dictionary (<https://jisho.org/search/%E5%AE%B6%E4%B8%AD%20%23sentences>)
gives the translation:

> 「失った物がないかと家中を捜した」  
>  I searched all the rooms for the lost thing.

But I don't understand why it is not translated into "I searched all the rooms
to see if there is something missing"

Could someone explain this please?
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What does 「失った物がないかと家中を捜した」 mean?
Does "to see if there is something missing" mean "to get to know if I lost
something"? (like you heard that someone burgled your house)  
Then from the viewpoint of grammar, the way you translate is not wrong, or
better than the original.  
失ったもの, unlike なくしたもの, must not be in your house.
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Japanese has no articles. Depending on the context, this 失った物 can mean either
"the thing I lost" or "something I lost". For example, the first
interpretation is correct in the context about a ring the speaker lost many
years ago. The second interpretation is correct in the context about a burglar
who broke into the house some time ago.

Since this example sentence has no previous context, I cannot say either
interpretation is incorrect. Nevertheless, in the context of a burglar, people
tend to use 何か and say 何か無くなっていないか(と)探した or 何か無くしていないか(と)探した. Provided there
is a sufficient prior context that explains what "the lost thing" is, there is
nothing wrong with jisho.org's translation.
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let me break it down for you

失った物: the things i lost,

がないかと(思って): here after the と, some verb is omitted, like 思う

家中を捜した - searched all over the house

so you can maybe translate it as: ""arent there any missing things?" i
thought, and started searching all over the house"

it can mean that you are not sure if there are missing things, so you do it,
in order to see if there actually are

also most of translations from japanese to english are not so direct, because
its hard to translate directly and be natural most of the time.
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