come out

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Infinitive
to come out

Third person singular
comes out

Simple past
came out

Past participle
come out

Present participle
coming out

to come out (third-person singular simple present comes out, present participle coming out, simple past came out, past participle come out)

  1. To be discovered, be revealed.
    It came out that he had been lying all the time.
  2. To be published, be issued.
    My new book comes out next week.
  3. (as a debutante) To make a formal debut in society.
  4. To end up or result.
    There were a lot of problems at the start, but it all came out well in the end.
  5. (cricket) (of a batsman) To walk onto the field at the beginning of an innings.
  6. (idiomatic, informal) To come out of the closet.

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