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ferreted
verb as in ransack
Strong matches
verb as in root
verb as in scout
verb as in search
Strongest matches
verb as in unearth
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Example Sentences
Most old books have now been ferreted out, and perhaps the only earths yet untried are in the Yezidi villages of the Sinjar.
His own public virtue was in this matter very great, for it was he who had ferreted out the secret.
Tyro, in his capacity as an Indian, ferreted end listened everywhere, but the secret was well kept.
A reporter ferreted him out and appeared at Tedworth Square with cabled instructions from his paper.
But I was never able to get certain proof of it under unimpeachable conditions; and I have ferreted out many a trick.
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On this page you'll find 239 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ferreted, such as: comb, gut, loot, pillage, plunder, and raid.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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