Synonyms for ferret out
fer·ret out

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1. ferret out

   Of human actions or character, detect is used, almost without exception, in a bad sense; discover may be used in either the good or the bad sense, oftener in the good; he was detected in a fraud; real merit is sure to be discovered. In scientific language, detect is used of delicate indications that appear in course of careful watching; as, a slight fluttering of the pulse could be detected. We discover what has existed but has not been known to us; we invent combinations or arrangements not before in use; Columbus discovered America; Morse invented the electric telegraph. Find is the most general word for every means of coming to know what was not before certainly known. A man finds in the road some stranger's purse, or finds his own which he is searching for. The expert discovers or detects an error in an account; the auditor finds the account to be correct. Compare DISCERN.

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   Synonyms:
   ascertain, descry, detect, discern, disclose, discover, expose, find, find out, invent

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1. ferret out, ferretverb

   search and discover through persistent investigation

   "She ferreted out the truth"

   Synonyms:
   ferret

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1. ferret out

   Synonyms:
   search out

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1. Peter Henning:

   They are trying to ferret out information from the midlevel employees who may know what happened but are fearful of being made a scapegoat.