1.to get something such as information from someone when they did not intend to give it to you
2.to try to make someone or something leave a place
1.It took a week to winkle out the intruder. Nobody knows what, if any, damage was caused.
足足一个星期之后入侵者才被剔除，如果有损失的话，没有人知道这次入侵导致的损失是什么。
2.In the tense and tactical contests he could, like Solskjaer, be a specialist substitute who can winkle out a goal.
他可以像索尔斯克亚那样，成为一名在局面紧张和战术做调整时能带来进球的超级替补。
3.It took a week to winkle out the intruder.
花了一个星期才将入侵者逐出。
4.The better to winkle out the communists, Suharto set up two intelligence agencies.
为了更好的清除共产主义者，他设立了两个情报机构。
5.Israel would, after all, find it hard if not impossible to winkle out every last rocket and martyr.
如果，以色列最后不能找出并消灭所有的火箭弹和殉教者，它就会知难而退。