rake sth out
UK— phrasal verb with rake uk/reɪk/us/reɪk/verb
to look for something and find it, usually among various things you have stored:
I raked this old blanket out for camping.
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Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- once-over
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- seek
- trail
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
- witch hunt
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