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muck·rake (muk′rāk′)

intransitive verb muckraked -·raked′, muckraking -·rak′·ing

☆ to search for and publicize, as in newspapers, any real or alleged corruption by public officials, business executives, or other important persons

Etymology: inspired by the allusion by Theodore Roosevelt in a speech (1906) to the man with the muck rake in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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