Definition of ferret out phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

ferret out

phrasal verb

ferret somebody/something out

(informal) to discover information or to find somebody/something by searching carefully and completely, asking a lot of questions, etc.
- He is determined to ferret out the truth about what happened.
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