ferret
noun
a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
have ferreted
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present perfectof ferret.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The big businessman might have ferreted the same Cabinet gossip out of his daily newspaper if it were not for two fundamental facts.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, from what I know of Juve, in a very short time he will have ferreted out the trap door and will descend as we have done.
From A Nest of Spies by Marcel Allain
I warrant thou wouldst have ferreted them through.'
From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford Madox Ford
"No. I suppose, since the journalists have ferreted it out, it won't be a secret much longer," she conceded grimly.
From The Splendid Folly by Margaret Pedler
With low cunning, the Terrestrials seemed to have ferreted out the identity of all his favorite dishes and kept serving them to him incessantly.
From Health Lessons Book 1 by Alvin Davison
