to try to find out someone’s opinions, ideas, feelings etc by talking to them
Amy saw Isabel put her hands up to her ears, as if to shut the sound out.
Candidates will be sounding out voters during the months before the election.
When you come back from your honeymoon, Fred, I'd like you to sound out your men in St Padarn's about the idea of a men's organization.
Without knowing it, the Ambassador's wife had zeroed in on the very man Control was anxious to sound out after dinner.
sounds out
sounding out
sounded out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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