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Fish out

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Verb
  1. 1
    To catch all or nearly all the fish in (a given body of water), so that few or none remain.

    "Settlers came and soon fished out the lake."

  2. 2
    To pick up or pull something or someone from (a body of water).

    "Losing nearly a third of the heavy cruisers, including Admiral Kurita's flagship, the Atago, was not an especially-auspicious start to the operation, especially with the admiral himself having to be fished out of the water by a destroyer."

  3. 3
    To search for by rummaging, and then extract (an item from e.g. a container); to obtain. idiomatic

    "I fished out my keys from the bottom of my bag."

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