выщупывать

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выщу́пывать (vyščúpyvatʹimpf (perfective вы́щупать)

  1. (colloquial) feel out
    • 1880, Николай Лесков [Nikolai Leskov], “Глава четвёртая”, in Белый орёл; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., The White Eagle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013:
      Он как бу́дто оста́вил меня́ в поко́е вози́ться с входя́щими и исходя́щими реги́страми и протоко́лами, но тем не ме́нее я всё́-таки чу́вствовал, что вокру́г меня́ что́-то копоши́тся, что лю́ди выщу́пывают, с како́й бы стороны́ меня́ улови́ть и пото́м, вероя́тно, запу́тать.
      On kak búdto ostávil menjá v pokóje vozítʹsja s vxodjáščimi i isxodjáščimi regístrami i protokólami, no tem ne méneje ja vsjó-taki čúvstvoval, što vokrúg menjá štó-to kopošítsja, što ljúdi vyščúpyvajut, s kakój by storoný menjá ulovítʹ i potóm, verojátno, zapútatʹ.
      He seemed to leave me in peace to busy myself with incoming and outgoing records and minutes, but nonetheless I kept feeling that something was going on around me, that people were trying to feel out which side to catch me from, and then, probably, to ensnare me.

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