noun
- Baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball. (
- usage: "you only get 3 outs per inning"
verb
- To state openly and publicly one's homosexuality.
- usage: "This actor outed last year"
- synonyms: come out of the closet, come out
- Reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle.
- usage: "The gay actor was outed last week"; "Someone outed a CIA agent"
- Be made known; be disclosed or revealed.
- usage: "The truth will out"
- synonyms: come out
adjective
- Not allowed to continue to bat or run.
- usage: "he was tagged out at second on a close play"; "he fanned out"
- Being out or having grown cold.
- usage: "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out"
- synonyms: extinct
- Not worth considering as a possibility.
- usage: "a picnic is out because of the weather"
- Out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election.
- usage: "now the Democrats are out"
- Excluded from use or mention.
- usage: "forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject"
- synonyms: forbidden, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten
- Directed outward or serving to direct something outward.
- usage: "the out doorway"; "the out basket"
- No longer fashionable.
- usage: "that style is out these days"
- Outside or external.
- usage: "the out surface of a ship's hull"
- Outer or outlying.
- usage: "the out islands"
- Knocked unconscious by a heavy blow.
- synonyms: knocked out, kayoed, KO'd, stunned
adverb
- Away from home.
- usage: "they went out last night"
- Moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden.
- usage: "the cat came out from under the bed";
- From one's possession.
- usage: "he gave out money to the poor"; "gave away the tickets"
- synonyms: away
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