dope out en · VERB
Meanings
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(colloquial, dated, transitive) To figure out, to find out, find, decipher
"All the same, I believe it was the hand of Fate that doped out the way for me to find her."
1906, O. Henry, The Green Door:"I was fed up with trying to peddle the rubberized paint, and my reckoning was that with a little dough to tide me over I could spend a week or two looking for something else, perhaps dope out a way to get back to college, for I had not altogether given up on that."
1953, S. Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| doped out | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| doped out | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| doping out | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| dopes out | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Translations (1)
ru разга́дывать (to figure out, to find out)