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muckrakes

muckrakes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of muckrake.

Meaning of muckrake

Verb

muckrake (third-person singular simple present muckrakes, present participle muckraking, simple past and past participle muckraked)

  1. (intransitive) To search for and expose corruption or scandal, especially as a form of investigative journalism.
    • To think that he cares about nothing save the possibility of being found out and made ridiculous! All his friends have been ‘muckraked,’ as he calls it, and he has sat aloft and smiled over their plight; he was the landed gentleman, the true aristrocrat, whom the worries of traders and...1914, Upton Sinclair, Sylvia's Marriage

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Questions about muckrakes

What is muckrakes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Muckrakes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of muckrake.

Words near muckrakes in the dictionary

  1. muckracking
  2. muckrake
  3. muckraked
  4. muckraker
  5. muckrakers
  6. muckrakes
  7. muckraking
  8. mucks
  9. mucks about
  10. mucks around
  11. mucks in

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