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say it: MUH-krayk
muckrake is a verb meaning "explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures". It carries one recorded sense.
explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures
“This reporter was well-known for his muckraking”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for muckrake come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.