tease out

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tease out

(tr, adverb) to extract (information) with difficulty

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Translations

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vt sep

fibres → kardieren, karden; wool → krempeln, kämmen; flax → hecheln; tangles → auskämmen

(fig) significant factors etc → herausdestillieren; meaning → herauslesen; to tease something out of something → etw aus etw herauspusseln (inf); he managed to tease the information out of her → er hat ihr die Auskunft abgelockt

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