| come out | | |
| v. (change) | 1. come on, come out, show up, surface, turn up | appear or become visible; make a showing.; "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again" |
| ~ appear | come into sight or view.; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon" |
| v. (change) | 2. appear, come out | be issued or published.; "Did your latest book appear yet?"; "The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet" |
| ~ materialise, materialize, happen | come into being; become reality.; "Her dream really materialized" |
| v. (change) | 3. come forth, come out, egress, emerge, go forth, issue | come out of.; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves" |
| ~ pop out | come out suddenly or forcefully.; "you stick a bill in the vending machine and the change pops out" |
| ~ radiate | issue or emerge in rays or waves.; "Heat radiated from the metal box" |
| ~ leak | enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure.; "Water leaked out of the can into the backpack"; "Gas leaked into the basement" |
| ~ escape | issue or leak, as from a small opening.; "Gas escaped into the bedroom" |
| ~ fall | come out; issue.; "silly phrases fell from her mouth" |
| ~ debouch | pass out or emerge; especially of rivers.; "The tributary debouched into the big river" |
| ~ fall out, come out | come off.; "His hair and teeth fell out" |
| v. (stative) | 4. come out, turn out | result or end.; "How will the game turn out?" |
| ~ end, cease, terminate, finish, stop | have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" |
| ~ eventuate | come out in the end. |
| ~ work out | happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well.; "Things worked out in an interesting way"; "Not everything worked out in the end and we were disappointed" |
| v. (motion) | 5. come out, fall out | come off.; "His hair and teeth fell out" |
| ~ come forth, egress, emerge, go forth, come out, issue | come out of.; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. come in, come out, place | take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal.; "Jerry came in third in the Marathon" |
| ~ rank | take or have a position relative to others.; "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World" |
| v. (motion) | 7. come forward, come out, come to the fore, step forward, step to the fore, step up | make oneself visible; take action.; "Young people should step to the fore and help their peers" |
| ~ act, move | perform an action, or work out or perform (an action).; "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel" |
| v. (motion) | 8. bug out, bulge, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, protrude, start | bulge outward.; "His eyes popped" |
| ~ change form, change shape, deform | assume a different shape or form. |
| v. (communication) | 9. come out, come out of the closet, out | to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality.; "This actor outed last year" |
| ~ disclose, divulge, let on, expose, give away, let out, reveal, unwrap, discover, bring out, break | make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret.; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" |
| v. (communication) | 10. come out, out | be made known; be disclosed or revealed.; "The truth will out" |
| v. (change) | 11. break through, come out, erupt, push through | break out.; "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted" |
| ~ dehisce | burst or split open.; "flowers dehisce when they release pollen" |
| ~ appear | come into sight or view.; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon" |
| ~ erupt | appear on the skin.; "A rash erupted on her arms after she had touched the exotic plant" |
| force out | | |
| n. (act) | 1. force, force out, force play, force-out | a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base.; "the shortstop got the runner at second on a force" |
| ~ putout | an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout).; "the first baseman made 15 putouts" |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| v. (social) | 2. depose, force out | force to leave (an office). |
| ~ boot out, drum out, oust, expel, kick out, throw out | remove from a position or office.; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds" |
| ~ overthrow, subvert, bring down, overturn | cause the downfall of; of rulers.; "The Czar was overthrown"; "subvert the ruling class" |
| v. (social) | 3. can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate | terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" |
| ~ retire | make (someone) retire.; "The director was retired after the scandal" |
| ~ pension off | let go from employment with an attractive pension.; "The director was pensioned off when he got senile" |
| ~ clean out | force out.; "The new boss cleaned out the lazy workers" |
| ~ furlough, lay off | dismiss, usually for economic reasons.; "She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized" |
| ~ squeeze out | force out.; "Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts" |
| ~ remove | remove from a position or an office. |
| ~ send away, send packing, dismiss, drop | stop associating with.; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock" |
| v. (motion) | 4. drive out, force out, rouse, rout out | force or drive out.; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M." |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ chase away, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back | force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings.; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers" |
| ~ hunt | chase away, with as with force.; "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood" |
| ~ smoke out | drive out with smoke.; "smoke out the bees" |
| v. (motion) | 5. crowd out, force out | press, force, or thrust out of a small space.; "The weeds crowded out the flowers" |
| ~ displace | cause to move, usually with force or pressure.; "the refugees were displaced by the war" |
| v. (contact) | 6. evict, force out | expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process.; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months" |
| ~ evict | expel or eject without recourse to legal process.; "The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m." |
| ~ eject, turf out, boot out, chuck out, exclude, turn out | put out or expel from a place.; "The unruly student was excluded from the game" |
| v. (contact) | 7. eject, force out, squeeze out, squirt | cause to come out in a squirt.; "the boy squirted water at his little sister" |
| ~ spritz | eject (a liquid) quickly.; "spritz water on a surface" |
| ~ extravasate | force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel. |
| ~ discharge | pour forth or release.; "discharge liquids" |
| v. (contact) | 8. force out, gouge | force with the thumb.; "gouge out his eyes" |
| ~ mar, mutilate | destroy or injure severely.; "mutilated bodies" |
| v. (body) | 9. force out | emit or cause to move with force of effort.; "force out the air"; "force out the splinter" |
| ~ emit, pass off, breathe | expel (gases or odors). |
| regurgitate | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. regurgitate | pour or rush back.; "The blood regurgitates into the heart ventricle" |
| ~ pour | flow in a spurt.; "Water poured all over the floor" |
| v. (consumption) | 2. regurgitate | feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food.; "many birds feed their young by regurgitating what they have swallowed and carried to the nest" |
| ~ feed, give | give food to.; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat" |
| v. (communication) | 3. regurgitate, reproduce | repeat after memorization.; "For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information" |
| ~ echo, repeat | to say again or imitate.; "followers echoing the cries of their leaders" |
| v. (body) | 4. barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up | eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" |
| ~ egest, excrete, eliminate, pass | eliminate from the body.; "Pass a kidney stone" |
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