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Tekoälykääntäjä
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| tšekki | páčit |
Määritelmät
Verbi
- (transitive, British) To acquire with difficulty, as by thorough scrutiny.
- (transitive) To get (something or someone) out of an entrenched position.
Esimerkit
- Tom managed to winkle the truth out of John eventually.
- 2005 : He watched her blink rapidly and choose a difference sort of release: “I mean, since you’re so good at winkling people out!” - Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, 406)
- [..] was mopping up the remnants of German resistance and trying to winkle out individual enemy soldiers from their hiding places.
- [..] using cloak-and-dagger methods to winkle out unwanted tenants and assemble vacant sites [..]