verb
definition
To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search; to reconnoiter.
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To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
verb
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To reject with contempt.
example
to scout an idea or an apology
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To scoff.
verb
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To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement.
Examples of scouted in a Sentence
I scouted for the army a few years.
She left the mansion into the cold night and scouted around.
We've scouted out some of the best games for your kids to try.
We've scouted out some great cross stitch patterns for you.
Thus he rejected advantageous offers of mediation and alliance made to him, during 1712, by the maritime powers and by Prussia; and, in 1714, he scouted the friendly overtures of Louis XIV.
We want to make shopping a little easier for you, so we've scouted out some great and unique baby boy gifts.
There are lots of toys for teen girls, and we've scouted out some to make your sweet teen smile!
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Guitarist Bryan Reilly was scouted and signed in 1993, 1 year before Mike joined the band.
Claire didn't look any worse for wear after a day in the offsite location Dusty had scouted as a temporary dungeon for their prisoners.
Mill's work at the India House, which was henceforth his livelihood, did, not come before the public; hence some have scouted his political writings as the work of an abstract philosopher, entirely unacquainted with affairs.
We know from himself that he was the intimate of those who belonged to the circle of the great orator Symmachus - men who scouted Stilicho's compact with the Goths, and led the Roman senate to support the pretenders Eugenius and Attalus in the vain hope of reinstating the gods whom Julian had failed to save.
The vast authority of Cuvier was employed in support of the traditionally respectable hypotheses of special creation and of catastrophism; and the wild speculations of the Discours sur les revolutions de la surface du globe were held to be models of sound scientific thinking, while the really much more sober and philosophical hypotheses of the Hydrogeologie were scouted.
Model Jessica White was scouted in Buffalo, New York, in her teens, and she has walked runway shows (Oscar de la Renta, Marc Jacobs) as well as participated in fashion editorials and makeup campaigns.
His insatiable researches into natural fact brought upon him among the vulgar some suspicion of practising those magic arts which of all things he scouted and despised.
Still thinking that foreign nations could be coerced through their commercial interests, he scouted as visionary the idea that Great Britain would go to war on a refusal to carry Jay's treaty into effect, thinking it inconceivable that Great Britain "would wantonly make war" upon a country which was the best market she had in the world for her manufactures, and one with which her export trade was so much larger than her import.