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[ verb ] move out of or depart from
Examples "leave the room" "the fugitive has left the country" Used in print (Time, 77: 3...)Out went letters to 60000 old grads , asking for suggestions . (The Atlanta Constitution...)A driver of a dairy truck , who begins work at 1 a. m. finishes before breakfast , then goes_out and grows a garden , and who has used the cannery to save and feed a family of five , asked , `` What in the world will we do '' ? (Idwal Jones, "Santa Cruz Run"...)After the meal , he and his guests went_out to inspect the rig ; this was merely a ritual , to please all hands concerned . (Todhunter Ballard, The Night Riders....)He supervised the cleanups and handled the shipments of raw gold which each_week went_out to San_Francisco . |
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[ verb ] leave the house to go somewhere
Examples "We never went out when our children were small" Used in print (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)She stood_up , smoothing her hair down , straightening her clothes , feeling a thankfulness for the enveloping darkness outside , and , above everything else , for the absence of the need to answer , to respond , to be aware even of Stowey coming_in or going_out , and yet , now that she was beginning to cook , she glimpsed a future without him , a future alone like this , and the pain made her head writhe , and in_a_moment she found it hard to wait for Lucretia to come with her guests . (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going_out alone on New_Year's_Eve , I knew for a moment an immense relief ; but the letter went_on : she had cried , she had implored , she had been miserable at his refusal , and finally he had relented - and now how happy she was , how expectant ! |
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[ verb ] take the field
Examples "The soldiers went out on missions" Used in print (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)Tonight a group of men , tomorrow night he himself , would go_out there somewhere and wait . Remember what I said about going_out to get anybody left behind ? Related terms |
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[ verb ] date regularly; have a steady relationship with
Examples "Did you know that she is seeing an older man?" "He is dating his former wife again!" Used in print (David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)A freshman girl 's father not too long_ago called a dean at Brooklyn_College and demanded the `` low-down '' on a boy who was going_out with his daughter . |
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