go out
See also: go-out
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go out (third-person singular simple present goes out, present participle going out, simple past went out, past participle gone out)Category:English lemmas#GOOUTCategory:English verbs#GOOUTCategory:English phrasal verbs#GOOUTCategory:English phrasal verbs formed with %22out%22#GOOUTCategory:English multiword terms#GOOUTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GOOUTCategory:Pages with entries#GO%20OUTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#GO%20OUT (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#GOOUT)
- To leave, especially a building.
- Please go out through the back door.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- (idiomaticCategory:English idioms#GOOUT) To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.
- Antonym: stay in
- They were going to stay in and read, but instead went out shopping.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- On their first date they went out to dinner at a restaurant.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- Let's go out tonight and have some fun!Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke viij:[5], folios lxxxvj, verso – lxxxvij, recto:
- A ſower went out to ſowe his ſeede / and as he ſowed / ſome fell by the waye ſyde / and hit was troden vnder fete / and the foules of the ayre devoured it vp.Category:English terms with quotations#GOOUT
- 1986 September 8, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
- It seems like we go out for pizza a lot these days.Category:English terms with quotations#GOOUT
- To be eliminated from a competition.
- Our team went out in the third round.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- To come to an end, by nature or by an unseen external agent.
- To be turned off or extinguished.
- The lights went out while I was taking a shower.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
- The match at once went out and Nickle only just saved himself from screaming.Category:English terms with quotations#GOOUT
- To go unconscious; to pass out.
- When I hit him, he hit the floor and went out.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- To be drained from; to disappear from somebody.
- All the fizz has already gone out of the election campaign.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- After diagnosis, all his confidence went out of him.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- To become extinct, to expire.
- 1922 October, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] XXVIII”, in Last Poems, London: Grant Richards Ltd., →OCLC, page 54:
- And cold the poor man lies at night, / And so goes out the year.Category:English terms with quotations#GOOUT
- To die.
- As much as you may want to plan your funeral, you can't control when you go out.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
- A motorcycle cop led the funeral procession & with all the cabs pulling up the rear we were 5–6 blocks long. The cops even blocked off streets for us. The guy went out like a goddamn mayor.
- To be turned off or extinguished.
- (card gamesCategory:en:Card games#GOOUT) To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
- Leon made two canastas, then went out by melding treys.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- To pass out of fashion; be on the wane.
- Antonym: come in
- He thought Nehru jackets went out in the late seventies.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section II, page 24:
- And ‘blubbing’ . . . Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. 1920s schoolboy slang could be due for a revival.Category:English terms with quotations#GOOUT
- (of a couple) To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.
- They've been going out for three years now, but still live apart.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- Jack and Susan are going out.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- (with with) To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
- Do you think she will go out with anyone this year?Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- (colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#GOOUT) To fail.
- I'd like to help clear the field, but my knee went out on me.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- (with on) To spend the last moments of a show (while playing something).
- Thank you for introducing us to your new album. Which song should we go out on?Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- (of the tide) To recede; to ebb.
- Antonym: come in
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#GOOUT, usually of one's heart) To sympathize with; to express positive feelings towards.
- Our thoughts and prayers go out to those afflicted by the tragedy.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- My heart went out to her, but there was nothing I could do.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#GOOUT) To take part in a duel (with). [17th–19th c.]
- 1789 May 27, [John Moore], chapter III, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 20:
- He went out at the firſt hint with the Neapolitan, and being an admirable ſwordſman, wounded and diſarmed him; […]Category:English terms with quotations#GOOUT
- 1890 December, Cornhill Magazine, page 626:
- He must go out or be under a social ban. Out they go accordingly, and the trained pistol-shot kills his civilian opponent.Category:English terms with quotations#GOOUT
- (UKCategory:British English#GOOUT, broadcastingCategory:en:Broadcasting#GOOUT) To be broadcast.
- The first episode of the show goes out on Saturday.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOOUT
Synonyms
- (have a romantic relationship): date; see also Thesaurus:date
Derived terms
Translations
to leave, especially a building
to leave one's abode to go to public places
to be turned off or extinguished
to become extinct, to expire
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