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Winkle out

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To acquire with difficulty, as by thorough scrutiny. British, transitive

    "Tom managed to winkle the truth out of John eventually."

  2. 2
    remove or displace from a position wordnet
  3. 3
    To get (something or someone) out of an entrenched position. transitive

    "[…] was mopping up the remnants of German resistance and trying to winkle out individual enemy soldiers from their hiding places."

  4. 4
    force from a place or position wordnet

Etymology

From winkle (“to extract”), from periwinkle (“a mollusk”).

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