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fish_out

fish out

English

Verb

fish out (third-person singular simple present fishes out, present participle fishing out, simple past and past participle fished out)

  1. To deplete the supply of fish in a given body of water.
  2. (idiomatic) To search for by rummaging, and then extract (an item from e.g. a container).