verb
- Appear or become visible; make a showing.
- usage: "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again"
- Be issued or published.
- usage: "Did your latest book appear yet"; "The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet"
- synonyms: appear
- Come out of.
- usage: "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves"
- synonyms: issue, emerge, come forth, go forth, egress
- Result or end.
- usage: "How will the game turn out"
- synonyms: turn out
- Come off.
- usage: "His hair and teeth fell out"
- synonyms: fall out
- Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal.
- usage: "Jerry came in third in the Marathon"
- Make oneself visible; take action.
- usage: "Young people should step to the fore and help their peers"
- synonyms: come to the fore, step forward, come forward, step up, step to the fore
- Bulge outward.
- usage: "His eyes popped"
- To state openly and publicly one's homosexuality.
- usage: "This actor outed last year"
- synonyms: come out of the closet, out
- Be made known; be disclosed or revealed.
- usage: "The truth will out"
- synonyms: out
- Break out.
- usage: "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted"
- synonyms: erupt, break through, push through
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