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come out

co·meout

very common

verb

1.

appear or become visible; make a showing

  • “She turned up at the funeral”
  • “I hope the list key is going to surface again”
2.

come out of

  • “Water issued from the hole in the wall”
  • “The words seemed to come out by themselves”
3.

be issued or published

  • “Did your latest book appear yet?”
  • “The new Woody Allen film hasn”
4.

prove to be in the result or end

  • “How will the game turn out?”
5.

come forth or out

  • “You stick the coins in, but they come out again”
  • “His hair and teeth fell out”
6.

take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal

  • “Jerry came in third in the Marathon”
7.

make oneself visible; take action

  • “Young people should step to the fore and help their peers”
9.

to state openly and publicly one''s homosexuality

  • “This actor outed last year”
10.

be made known; be disclosed or revealed

  • “The truth will out”
Synonyms
11.

as of teeth, for example

  • “The tooth erupted and had to be extracted”

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