out
- adjective
- /aʊt/
- The flashlight's batteries died, and now the light is completely out.
Examples
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I'm done living life with the lights out with my own doubts.
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I'm done living life with the lights out dark with my own doubts.
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I like winter when the sun's out, but yeah.
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I thought it was the sight of that pathetic, burned-out shell of a building.
Fiction book (1998) -
It's now 9:30, and that's lights-out time, 9:30, as you know.
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The tactics play out behind the blank gray screen of corrugated metal stapled across your window's gouged-out eye.
Fiction book (1999) -
This old(ish) man with his fading memory thanks you from the bottom of his slowly wearing-out heart!
Blog text (13) -
The campfire was out, leaving only a bed of cold ashes.
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We lit all the candles, but one of them had gone out before dinner.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Idioms
Someone quotes words without the surrounding information, making the meaning seem wrong
- Informal
Too good for someone to match, often in social or romantic situations
- Informal
Not having any left of something or having just finished something like school
To take a risk by saying or doing something that may get you in trouble
- Informal
An idea or hope that is suddenly ignored and can no longer happen
Compounds
- NSFW
Withdrawing the penis from a partner's vagina before he releases sperm to try to avoid pregnancy
A celebration when someone tells friends and family about their sexual orientation or gender identity
A sale where a shop sells everything at low prices because it is closing
- Jargon
A baseball out that happens when a fielder holding the ball touches the base a runner must reach
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Etymology
Out comes from the old word ūt for 'outside', and people used it for fires or lights that were no longer burning, as in 'lights out', so a fire that is out is 'extinguished'.