sketch out

verb

To creep out; to give a creepy or sketchy feeling to someone.

“The awkward and agitated customer began to sketch them out a bit.”

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Meanings

verbsketch out (third-person singular simple present sketches out, present participle sketching out, simple past and past participle sketched out)

present singular third person sketches out · participle present sketching out · participle past sketched out · past sketched out

  1. CanadaUSinformaltransitiveTo creep out; to give a creepy or sketchy feeling to someone.

    The awkward and agitated customer began to sketch them out a bit.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sketch, out.

    I sketched out the trees and the lake before adding texture and colour to the scene.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbindicate roughly

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block out
Broader
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block outrough out

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sketch out,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sketch%20out.

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