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ferreting (out)verbpresent participle of ferret (out) to come upon after searching, study, or effortthe reporter ferreted out massive evidence of corruption at city hall ascertaining, descrying, detecting, determining, digging out, digging up, discovering, dredging (up), finding, finding out, getting, hitting (on or upon), hunting (down or up), learning, locating, nosing out, rooting (out), routing (out), rummaging, running down, scaring up, scouting (up), tracking (down), turning up espying, sighting, spottinglooking for, searching (for or out), seeking missing, overlooking, passing over losing, mislaying, misplacing, missetting(or mis-setting) |