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feel out

/fiːl aʊt/

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verb

/fiːl aʊt/B2formal
  • ruФразовый глагол, используемый для обозначения осторожной попытки выяснить чьи-либо мнения, намерения или чувства по поводу чего-либо.

A phrasal verb used to indicate the act of cautiously trying to discover someone's opinions, intentions, or feelings about something.

uncountable · irregular verb · transitive · phrasal, separable

  1. Gauge opinion or reactioninformal

    To cautiously try to discover someone's opinion, attitude, or feelings about something.

    ruПрощупывать

    • I need to feel out my boss about the new project idea.
    • She felt out her friends to see if they wanted to go on a trip.
    • He tried to feel out the committee's stance on the proposal.

    Synonymscanvassexploreinvestigateprobeput out feelerssound outsurvey

Forms
  • felt out past participle
  • felt out past simple
  • feeling out present participle
  • feels out third person singular

Base verbfeel

Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

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