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单词 to ferret out
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to ferret out
4. to ferret out, ferret up: To search out, discover, bring to light.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > by searching or tracking down > and bring to light
to search outc1425
to hunt out1576
unrip?1576
to ferret out1577
to fetch up1608
fish1632
prog1655
rummage1797
rout1814
exhume1819
excavate1840
ferret up1847
unearth1863
fossick?1870
exhumate1881
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande vi. f. 21v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I He were able to ferret out such barebrich brattes.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 122 b Let us now fyrritte out the other, and see what vermine it is.
a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) v. iv. 82 Let's in and ferret out these cheating Rakehels.
1775 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XII. 324 Rather ferret them out, and drag them into open day.
1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xxxix. 330 She had been out in the village, and ferretted up all the guides.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House ix. 88 I have ferreted out evidence, got up cases.
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