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scouting out

scouting out is the present participle and gerund of scout out.

Meaning of scout out

Verb

scout out (third-person singular simple present scouts out, present participle scouting out, simple past and past participle scouted out)

  1. to search, to look for
  2. to track down, to find by searching

Questions about scouting out

What is scouting out the present participle and gerund of?
Scouting out is the present participle and gerund of scout out.

Words near scouting out in the dictionary

  1. scouthood
  2. scouthouse
  3. scouthouses
  4. scoutin'
  5. scouting
  6. scouting out
  7. scoutingly
  8. scoutings
  9. scoutlike
  10. scoutmaster
  11. Scoutmaster conference

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scouting out (page history and authors); scout out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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