to outen
- verb
- Offensive
:
sacar del armario
- She felt betrayed when her friend outed her to the group without her consent.
I kind of just outed myself of of, you know, being very weird at this point.
- I kind of just outed myself of of, you know, being very weird at this point.
- So why why didn't people just out him and he was like the the American dad, the ultimate, like Homer Simpson and Bill Cosby's man.
Examples
-
OK, so up next, am I the asshole for accidentally outing my gay best friend?
-
So he needs to be outed, named and shamed.
-
I kind of just outed myself of of, you know, being very weird at this point.
-
He was afraid that his secret would be outed if he didn't come out himself.
-
The journalist decided to out the politician's hidden history after verifying the facts.
Synonyms
342
4.1
Reveal hidden facts or bad actions to people
234
4.1
To tell people information that was secret
76
8.6
To tell the police or another authority about someone's bad action, betraying their trust
60
4.2
To show a feeling or secret without meaning to
45
6.2
To tell secret or private information to people
32
3.7
Tell secret or private information to other people
18
6.0
Tell a secret by accident before others know
8
3.7
Make secret information known to the public
5
5.1
To tell a secret that should be kept
2
7.7
Reveal a secret or someone's identity
1
7.9
To tell a secret carelessly or without meaning to
Antonyms
How Public
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Outen in the sense of revealing someone also comes from out + -en, but here 'out' means 'no longer hidden', like telling someone to 'come out' of the 'closet'. So, to outen someone is to make their private information public.