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fish out en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  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. 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. 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 5:34 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
  3. (idiomatic) To search for by rummaging, and then extract (an item from e.g. a container); to obtain.
    • I fished out my keys from the bottom of my bag.
    • I fished out some information from some old copies of the local gazette.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
fishes out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
fishing out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
fished out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
fished out Tense=Past lexicographic

Translations (1)

eo elpreni (rummage, then extract)