expiscate

vt.<主苏格兰>查出,探明, 搜出

词形变化

expiscated expiscates 三单 expiscates expiscating expiscating 现在分词 expiscated 过去式 expiscated 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out or rummage (for information)

    古体 正式 及物

    November 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Letters, Chapter XXXIV I am in a fair way to expiscate my family history

词源

From Latin expiscatus, past participle of expiscari (“to fish out”), from ex (“out”) + piscari (“to fish”), piscis (“fish”).

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