Ferret Out

Definition: Ferret Out

Ferret Out

Verb

1. Search and discover through persistent investigation; "She ferreted out the truth".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Ferret Out

Discovery

Verb: discover, find, determine, evolve, learn; fix upon; pick up; find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out; fathom; bring out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light; dig out, grub up, fish up; unearth, disinter.

Inquiry

Look into every hole and corner, peer into every hole and corner, pry into every hole and corner; nose; trace up; search out, hunt down, hunt out, fish out, ferret out; unearth; leave no stone unturned.

Expression using "ferret out": ferret out secrets. Additional references.

Albanian

zbuloj (bare, belie, bewray, blurt out, bring out, bring to light, catch, contrive, descry, detect, develop, disclose, discover, disinter, distil, distill, divine, divulge, enucleate, explore, ferret, ferret about, find, find out, hit, hunt down, invent, look out, open, proclaim, puzzle out, rat, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, reveal, rummage, trace, uncloak, uncover, uncurtain, unearth, unlock, unveil), rrëmoj (delve, dig, dive, ferret about, forage, Mold, mole, mould, rout, rummage, scavenge, search). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كشف الأسرار (ferret out secrets), ‏بحث عن الأسرار (ferret out secrets, pry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

измъквам (disentangle, drag out, drag up, extract, extricate, finagle, fish out, get away, mulct, pry, rip out, rout up, rummage out, shake down, slip away, tap, wheedle, worm), издирвам (dig, hunt out, investigate, seek out, sus out, track down). (various references)

Chinese 

揭露 (expose, unmask). (various references)

Czech

vyslídit (hunt out, nose out, track). (various references)

Finnish

nuuskia (sniff pry). (various references)

French

dénicher (ferret out secrets), découvrir (ferret, ferret out secrets). (various references)

German

ausschnüffeln (nose out), auskundschaften (explore, find out, rake out, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, scout, scout out, scouting, spy out, to explore), aufstöbern (disturb, flush, flush out, hunt off, rout out, scout out, start, to track down, track down, unearth), aufschnüffeln. (various references)

Hungarian

kinyomoz (to detect, to retrace, to scent, to trace, to track, track down). (various references)

Indonesian

mengusut. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

洗い立てる (to check up on, to examine closely, to ferret out, to wash carefully). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あらいたてる (to check up on, to examine closely, to ferret out, to wash carefully). (various references)

Pig Latin

erretfay outay

Russian 

выведывать (pry out). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

iščačkati (dig up, rummage out). (various references)

Spanish

descubrir secretos (ferret out secrets). (various references)

Swedish

spåra upp (hunt out, hunt up, nose after, trail), snoka upp. (various references)

Turkish

ortaya çıkarmak (bring into the open, bring out, bring to light, bring to pass, conceive, detect, disclose, discover, expose, get at, hit off, lay bare, pick out, search out, show up, sift out, smoke out, throw into relief, uncloak, uncover, unearth, unveil). (various references)

Mustela nigripes. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: frotteur.

-2 letters: fouette, fretter, refuter, reroute, reutter, torture, utterer.

-3 letters: ferret, fetter, furore, refute, retore, retort, rotter, router, terret, tourer, touter, tufter, turret, ureter.

-4 letters: fetor, forte, freer, frere, frore, furor, ofter, otter, outer, outre, refer, retro, rotte, route, torte, toter, trout, truer, tutee, tutor, utter.

-5 letters: euro, feet, fere, fete, fore, fort, four, free.

+4 letters: countereffort, counterfeiter, fortuneteller, tetrafluoride.

+5 letters: counterefforts, counterfeiters, fortunetellers, tetrafluorides.