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go out
verb
- to depart from a room, house, country, etc
- to cease to illuminate, burn, or function
the fire has gone out
- to cease to be fashionable or popular
that style went out ages ago!
- to become unconscious or fall asleep
she went out like a light
- (of a broadcast) to be transmitted
- to go to entertainments, social functions, etc
- usually foll bywith or together to associate (with a person of the opposite sex) regularly; date
- (of workers) to begin to strike
- foll by to to be extended (to)
our sympathy went out to her on the death of her sister
- cards to get rid of the last card, token, etc, in one's hand
- go all outto make a great effort to achieve or obtain something
he went all out to pass the exam
Example Sentences
“We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media,” Mr. Patel said last year.
We have reported on how pollution affects the poorest the most and how many don’t have a choice but to go out and work in the smog here, here and here.
Then spontaneously one Christmas, while his partner was away visiting family, he went out and bought a pack of bloodhounds.
"I beat myself up that I didn't stop him going out," she said.
"He doesn't look at the bank account … as far as looking at it on paper, what we have coming in and what we have going out, I carry that burden," one woman said.
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