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muckraking

muckraking is the present participle and gerund 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 muckraking

What is muckraking the present participle and gerund of?
Muckraking is the present participle and gerund of muckrake.

Words near muckraking in the dictionary

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

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