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Verbit
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Verbit

  1. (British) to acquire something or someone with difficulty
  2. to get something or someone out of 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 [..]

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