English to afrikaans meaning of

As 'n selfstandige naamwoord het "fret" 'n paar verskillende betekenisse:'n Klein, vleisetende soogdier van die weselfamilie, dikwels opgelei om rotte en hase te jag.'n Smal buis of draad wat gebruik word om blokkasies te verwyder of om gas of vloeistof in 'n beperkte ruimte in te lei.'n Persoon wat aanhoudend soek of ontbloot inligting deur aanhoudende ondervraging.As 'n werkwoord beteken "fret":Om iets te jag of te soek aanhoudend of ywerig.Om uit die skuilplek te dryf; om uit te spoel.Om 'n verstopte gang met 'n fret skoon te maak.

Sentence Examples

  1. If anyone could see through me or ferret out my secrets, it would be him.
  2. A doe ferret rubs her itching side against a mossy rock.
  3. I pass my life with my wife, children, and friends my pursuits are hunting and fishing, but I keep neither hawks nor greyhounds, nothing but a tame partridge or a bold ferret or two I have six dozen or so of books, some in our mother tongue, some Latin, some of them history, others devotional those of chivalry have not as yet crossed the threshold of my door I am more given to turning over the profane than the devotional, so long as they are books of honest entertainment that charm by their style and attract and interest by the invention they display, though of these there are very few in Spain.
  4. He had been piqued by the failure of all his endeavors to ferret out the assassins.
  5. I ran checkpoints on meaningless roads that did nothing to ferret out the bad guys.