go out

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[edit] English

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to go out

Third person singular
goes out

Simple past
went out

Past participle
gone out

Present participle
going out

to go out (third-person singular simple present goes out, present participle going out, simple past went out, past participle gone out)

  1. (intransitive) To leave, especially a building.
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To leave one's abode to go to public places.
    They were going to stay in and read, but instead went out shopping.
    After going to Joan's for dinner, they went out.
  3. (intransitive) to be turned off or extinguished
    The lights went out.
  4. (intransitive) to become extinct, to expire.
    • 1922, Alfred Edward Housman, XXVIII, lines 3-4
      And cold the poor man lies at night, / And so goes out the year.

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[edit] Translations

to leave, especially a building
to leave one's abode to go to public places
to be turned off or extinguished
to become extinct, to expire
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[edit] Anagrams

  • Anagrams of gootu
  • outgo
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