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View synonyms for go out

go out

verb

  1. to depart from a room, house, country, etc
  2. to cease to illuminate, burn, or function

    the fire has gone out

  3. to cease to be fashionable or popular

    that style went out ages ago!

  4. to become unconscious or fall asleep

    she went out like a light

  5. (of a broadcast) to be transmitted
  6. to go to entertainments, social functions, etc
  7. usually foll bywith or together to associate (with a person of the opposite sex) regularly; date
  8. (of workers) to begin to strike
  9. foll by to to be extended (to)

    our sympathy went out to her on the death of her sister

  10. cards to get rid of the last card, token, etc, in one's hand
  11. go all out
    to make a great effort to achieve or obtain something

    he went all out to pass the exam

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

I mean, the reality of it was, I had to go out and get on a horse, and ride in, shoot the gun — how hard was that, right?

Minutes before an airplane hit the water, an alert would go out.

Before I go out on tour, I ask for prayer and to help my family.

“The entertainers still entertain—and the people still have to get an ass-kicking to go out and vote,” Cosby said.

He thinks leaving large sums to children is a disincentive for them to go out and do great things on their own.

He would go out and secure orders there at home among his friends and acquaintances.

No persons could come in or go out unless their business was known to those who had charge of the passage.

It was a habit with him to disguise himself in ordinary clothing and then to go out and mingle with the common people.

It is certain that if this retreat, from which the girls go out married, were to fail, they would perish and be lost.

Aunt Freda is at the house and she and the Reverend told me to go out and not to show myself back home for hours.

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