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(baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball - you only get 3 outs per inning • Topics: baseball, baseball game • Hypernyms: failure • Hyponyms: putout, strikeout
1. to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality - This actor outed last year • Syn: come out of the closet, come out • Hypernyms: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s 2. reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle - The gay actor was outed last week - Someone outed a CIA agent • Hypernyms: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s somebody - Something ----s somebody 3. be made known; be disclosed or revealed - The truth will out • Syn: come out • Verb Frames: - Something ----s - Somebody ----s
1. not allowed to continue to bat or run (Freq. 3) - he was tagged out at second on a close play - he fanned out • Ant: safe • Similar to: down • Topics: baseball, baseball game 2. being out or having grown cold (Freq. 2) - threw his extinct cigarette into the stream - the fire is out • Syn: extinct • Similar to: dead 3. not worth considering as a possibility (Freq. 1) - a picnic is out because of the weather • Similar to: impossible 4. out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election - now the Democrats are out • Similar to: unsuccessful 5. excluded from use or mention - forbidden fruit - in our house dancing and playing cards were out - a taboo subject • Syn: forbidden, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten • Similar to: impermissible 6. directed outward or serving to direct something outward - the out doorway - the out basket • Similar to: outgoing 7. no longer fashionable - that style is out these days • Similar to: unfashionable, unstylish 8. outside or external - the out surface of a ship's hull • Similar to: exterior 9. outer or outlying - the out islands • Similar to: outer 10. knocked unconscious by a heavy blow • Syn: knocked out, kayoed, KO'd, stunned • Similar to: unconscious
1. away from home (Freq. 5) - they went out last night 2. moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden - the cat came out from under the bed 3. from one's possession - he gave out money to the poor - gave away the tickets • Syn: away
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