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Definition of Ferret out
1. Verb. Search and discover through persistent investigation. "She ferreted out the truth"
Definition of Ferret out
1. Verb. (transitive) To cause to become fat, by feeding. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To discover something after searching. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ferret Out
Literary usage of Ferret out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations by Thomas Williams Bicknell (1920)
"... and that Deputy-Governor Sessions, of Providence, was one of the most active
agents in trying to ferret out the men engaged in the enterprise. ..."
2. Vigilante Days and Ways: The Pioneers of the Rockies; the Makers and Making by Nathaniel Pitt Langford (1890)
"... or a clew to guide him, he went to work to ferret out the crime. His friends
laughed at and discouraged him. The roughs of Lewiston threatened him. ..."
3. Personal Recollections of the American Revolution: A Private Journal by Lydia Minturn Post (1859)
"... determined to ferret out the offenders. The end is with Him "who neither
slumbers, nor sleeps," in whom is " neither variableness, nor shadow of turning ..."
4. Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Book of Genesis by Melancthon Williams Jacobus (1869)
"But, ou this theory, also, it is impossible to account for the facts, or to ferret
out the authorship, and most of all, to account for the universal "be. ..."
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