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Come out   /kəm aʊt/   Listen
Come out

verb
1.
Appear or become visible; make a showing.  Synonyms: come on, show up, surface, turn up.  "I hope the list key is going to surface again"
2.
Be issued or published.  Synonym: appear.  "The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet"
3.
Come out of.  Synonyms: come forth, egress, emerge, go forth, issue.  "The words seemed to come out by themselves"
4.
Result or end.  Synonym: turn out.
5.
Come off.  Synonym: fall out.
6.
Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal.  Synonyms: come in, place.
7.
Make oneself visible; take action.  Synonyms: come forward, come to the fore, step forward, step to the fore, step up.
8.
Bulge outward.  Synonyms: bug out, bulge, bulge out, pop, pop out, protrude, start.
9.
To state openly and publicly one's homosexuality.  Synonyms: come out of the closet, out.
10.
Be made known; be disclosed or revealed.  Synonym: out.
11.
Break out.  Synonyms: break through, erupt, push through.



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"Come out" Quotes from Famous Books



... were lost, they were greatly cast down; howbeit, they got away to the great Island on board some of the ships which had not been carried off. And the King then gathered all his host to the siege of the city, and invested it so straitly that no one could go in or come out. Those who were within held the place for seven months, and strove by all means to send word to the Great Kaan; but it was all in vain, they never could get the intelligence carried to him. So when they saw they could hold out no longer they gave themselves up, on condition that their ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... to-morrow two articles by Asa Gray. The longer one (now not finally corrected) will come out in the October "Atlantic Monthly," and they can be got at Trubner's. Hearty thanks ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin

... before. My father, when he was young, was second groom for a lord and used to tell me about the silver in the house and the arms on the sides of the carriages. What he's left home for the dear God only knows; but it will come out, and when it does it won't be what anybody thinks. And he's got a fine way wid him, and a clear look out of his eye, and I'll bet ye he's tellin' the truth and all of it. Here they come now, and I'm glad they've got rid of that rag baby of Bobby's." She turned to her husband. "And, John, ...
— Felix O'Day • F. Hopkinson Smith

... pl. beadohrægl brōden on brēostum læg. 552.—2) the inmost thoughts, the mind, the heart, the bosom: nom. sg. brēost innan wēoll þēostrum geþoncum, his breast heaved with troubled thoughts, 2332; dat. pl. lēt þā of brēostum word ūt faran, caused the words to come out from his bosom, 2551. ...
— Beowulf • James A. Harrison and Robert Sharp, eds.

... Scollay Square dreaming about her had done the young captain of the Seamew positively no good! She did not come out again, although he stood there for fully an hour. At the end of that time he strolled up an alley and discovered that there was a side door to the restaurant for the use of employees, and he judged that the girl, seeing ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper


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