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Out to   /aʊt tu/   Listen
Out to

adjective
1.
Fixed in your purpose.  Synonyms: bent, bent on, dead set.  "Dead set against intervening" , "Out to win every event"






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"Out to" Quotes from Famous Books



... undergoes an interruption through the fact that someone has come out to the hut door, and is whistling softly, as ...
— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky

... arm of the Governor for protection. Never before had he seen the great city of Zamboanga; he was overcome and terrified by its comparative grandeur, and possibly by the imposing figure of the six-foot Governor himself. The police had to be called out to restrain the mobs who watched his arrival. On the other hand, as the Sultans, the Dattos and their suites together numbered about 600, and from other places by land about 400 more had come, all armed, many of the townspeople, with traditional dread, shut ...
— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman

... felled an ox. Both shouted; the boy roared. They ended by angry argument. All the time that he was beating his son, Melchior maintained that he was right, and that this was the sort of thing that one came by, by going out to service with people who thought they could do everything because they had money; and as she beat the child, Louisa shouted that her husband was a brute, that she would never let him touch the boy, and that he had really hurt him. Jean-Christophe was, in fact, bleeding a little from the ...
— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland

... so that none might stray. Consequently, when one happened to trip over some log or other obstacle that lay in the path he would sing out to warn his comrades, so as to save ...
— Boy Scouts on a Long Hike - Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps • Archibald Lee Fletcher

... grand means of cure now is abstinence for the time from all food, and this he carries out to a degree which must astonish most physicians of the present day, as well as their patients. During times of sickness, when there is no desire for food, he gives none till the desire comes, and then only if the state of the tongue and general condition ...
— The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure • Edward Hooker Dewey


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