smoke somebody/something ↔ out phrasal verb (see also smoke)

1. to fill a place with smoke in order to force someone or something to come out:
He smoked the bees out of their nest.

2. to discover who is causing a particular problem and force them to make themselves known:
an operation to smoke out double agents

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smoke out
smoke (someone) out
to force someone to stop hiding.
He didn't just walk into the police station and surrender, we had to smoke him out of hiding.

To prevent such attacks, you have to smoke out the bad guys before they reach their targets.

smoke out (something)
to find something.
The company is trying to smoke out a buyer for its weaker divisions.

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smoke out something
smoke out (something)
to find something.
The company is trying to smoke out a buyer for its weaker divisions.

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smoke out
1. • smoke (someone or something) out
to force someone or something out with smoke
We smoked the rats out of their nests with the black smoke.

2. •smoke (something) out
to find out the facts about something
We finally were able to smoke out the reason why our boss left the company.

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smoke something out
1. • smoke (someone or something) out
to force someone or something out with smoke
We smoked the rats out of their nests with the black smoke.

2. •smoke (something) out
to find out the facts about something
We finally were able to smoke out the reason why our boss left the company.

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smoke out
v. phr.
1. To force out with smoke.
The boys smoked a squirrel out of a hollow tree.
The farmer tried to smoke some gophers out of their burrows.
2. informal To find out the facts about.
It took the reporter three weeks to smoke out the whole story.

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smoke out
n. A successful conclusion of an act of investigative journalism revealing some long-kept secrets.
Journalist Bob Woodward was the hero of the Watergate smoke-out.

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smoke someone out
smoke (someone) out
to force someone to stop hiding.
He didn't just walk into the police station and surrender, we had to smoke him out of hiding.

To prevent such attacks, you have to smoke out the bad guys before they reach their targets.

smoke out (something)
to find something.
The company is trying to smoke out a buyer for its weaker divisions.

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smoke someone out
• smoke (someone or something) out
to force someone or something out with smoke
We smoked the rats out of their nests with the black smoke.

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