transitive verb
1. : to drive out of a place of hiding or concealment by or as if by the use of smoke
smoked out small game by ramming smoldering grass into a hole — New York Herald Tribune Book Review
came and smoked him out with tommy guns — Jean Stafford
2. : to bring into the open : bring to public view or knowledge
would smoke out the real intentions of the Syrian government — A.T.Steele