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sketches out

sketches out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sketch out.

Meaning of sketch out

Verb

sketch out (third-person singular simple present sketches out, present participle sketching out, simple past and past participle sketched out)

  1. (Canada, US, informal, transitive) To creep out; to give a creepy or sketchy feeling to someone.
    • The awkward and agitated customer began to sketch them out a bit.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sketch, out.
    • I sketched out the trees and the lake before adding texture and colour to the scene.

Questions about sketches out

What is sketches out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sketches out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sketch out.

Words near sketches out in the dictionary

  1. sketched
  2. sketched out
  3. sketcher
  4. sketchers
  5. sketches
  6. sketches out
  7. sketcheth
  8. sketchier
  9. sketchiest
  10. sketchily
  11. sketchiness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sketches out (page history and authors); sketch 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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