feel sb/sth out
— phrasal verb with feel uk/fiːl/us/fiːl/verb felt, felt
to try to get information from someone or from a situation without asking direct questions:
Why don’t you feel them out to see if they’ll invite me over too?
I think they are trying to feel out what the new relationship should be.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Understanding and comprehending
- apprehend
- apprehension
- at your fingertips idiom
- attune
- bear in on/upon
- common
- fathom
- feel
- fingertip
- hit
- make sth/sb out
- mind
- picture
- plumb
- read between the lines idiom
- reading
- realization
- realize
- take sth in
- twig
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Experiencing and suffering
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