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to go out
to go out
I. Senses primarily relating to physical movement.
1. intransitive.
a. To move or travel from within somewhere, or out of a building, room, etc.; to go outdoors; esp. to go away from one's home.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)]
outgoeOE
to come outOE
forthcomeOE
to go outOE
to go outOE
ishc1330
to take forth one's way (also journey, road, etc.)a1375
proceedc1380
getc1390
exorta1400
issue?a1400
precedec1425
purgea1430
to come forthc1449
suea1450
ushc1475
to call one's way (also course)1488
to turn outa1500
void1558
redound1565
egress1578
outpacea1596
result1598
pursue1651
out1653
pop1770
to get out1835
progress1851
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 416 Albanus eode ut to þam ehterum mid ðæs preostes hakelan.
OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xi. 43 Ða he ðas þing sæde, he clypode mycelre stefne, Lazarus, ga ut [L. veni foras].
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 45 Ameiden..iacobes dochter..heode vt to seon vncuðe wimmen.
a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 135 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 42 Al þet blod þat in hire was, out it ede þo.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. vii. 3 Go out in to aȝencomyng of Achaz.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 10951 He bad þe folk go out vchone Whil he preyed in þe chirche al one.
1480 Cronicles Eng. (Caxton) iii. sig. a5v That Coryn priuely sholde gone oute and bussh hym in a wode til amorne.
1549 J. Ponet Def. Mariage Priestes sig. Eviv I can not nor wyll not come because of a promise yt I haue made to abide within the walles of my hous and neuer to go out all the daies of my life.
a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) iii. 33 When she went out this morning..Shee had two women at the doore attending.
1679 R. Carleton Diana i. 5 A workman going out at day-break about his business, had spied a gentleman-like-man going into a little Cottage.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 137. ⁋3 She calls for her Coach, then commands it in again, and then she will not go out at all.
1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions iv. 30 He can appear tho' the Doors be shut; and go out, tho' bolted and barr'd in.
1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) iii. 24 Mr. Peggotty went out to wash himself in a kettleful of hot water.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies i. 10 Instead of going out to dinner at half-past eight.
1934 D. Thomas Let. 9 May (1987) 133 Let me go out for my much-talked of walk.
1960 ‘Miss Read’ Fresh from Country (1962) xi. 113 At school the children sniffed and coughed and rubbed chilblained toes and fingers. They disliked going out to play in the freezing playground.
2006 H. Hamilton Harbor Boys v. 43 I stopped to glance sideways at myself in the mirror before going out.
b. imperative. In form gout. Expressing dismissal, impatience, derision, incredulity, or surprise. Cf. to go on 3b at Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection]
whatOE
well, wellOE
avoyc1300
ouc1300
ay1340
lorda1393
ahaa1400
hillaa1400
whannowc1450
wow1513
why?1520
heydaya1529
ah1538
ah me!a1547
fore me!a1547
o me!a1547
what the (also a) goodyear1570
precious coals1576
Lord have mercy (on us)1581
good heavens1588
whau1589
coads1590
ay me!1591
my stars!a1593
Gods me1595
law1598
Godso1600
to go out1600
coads-nigs1608
for mercy!a1616
good stars!1615
mercy on us (also me, etc.)!a1616
gramercy1617
goodness1623
what next?1662
mon Dieu1665
heugh1668
criminy1681
Lawd1696
the dickens1697
(God, etc.) bless my heart1704
alackaday1705
(for) mercy's sake!1707
my1707
deuce1710
gracious1712
goodly and gracious1713
my word1722
my stars and garters!1758
lawka1774
losha1779
Lord bless me (also you, us, etc.)1784
great guns!1795
mein Gott1795
Dear me!1805
fancy1813
well, I'm sure!1815
massy1817
Dear, dear!1818
to get off1818
laws1824
Mamma mia1824
by crikey1826
wisha1826
alleleu1829
crackey1830
Madonna mia1830
indeed1834
to go on1835
snakes1839
Jerusalem1840
sapristi1840
oh my days1841
tear and ages1841
what (why, etc.) in time?1844
sakes alive!1846
gee willikers1847
to get away1847
well, to be sure!1847
gee1851
Great Scott1852
holy mackerel!1855
doggone1857
lawsy1868
my wig(s)!1871
gee whiz1872
crimes1874
yoicks1881
Christmas1882
hully gee1895
'ullo1895
my hat!1899
good (also great) grief!1900
strike me pink!1902
oo-er1909
what do you know?1909
cripes1910
coo1911
zowiec1913
can you tie that?1918
hot diggety1924
yeow1924
ziggety1924
stone (or stiffen) the crows1930
hullo1931
tiens1932
whammo1932
po po po1936
how about that?1939
hallo1942
brother1945
tie that!1948
surprise1953
wowee1963
yikes1971
never1974
to sod off1976
whee1978
mercy1986
yipes1989
1600 Looke about You xviii. E 3 Gout I haue curtall'd what I could not borrow.
1600 Looke about You xix. E 3 b Glo. Gods mother doe you scorne me? Io. Gout, what then?
c. Sport. Of a ball, etc.: to land outside the field of play after being struck or thrown; to pass beyond the boundary line of a pitch. Hence of a shot, throw, etc.: which causes this.
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1873 Derby Mercury 26 Feb. 8/4 The first bit of noteworthy play was..by Mr. Owen, who was met in his career by a Sheffield player, and the ball went out.
1889 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Jan. 286 When the game commences or the ball goes out ‘a bully’, which is nothing more nor less than a Rugby scrummage, is formed.
1922 Amer. Lawn Tennis 15 Jan. 557/2 He is never slow to express his disgust outwardly as his favorite shot goes out by inches.
1952 W. Mace Tennis Techniques Illustr. viii. 52 If the spin is so great, that the serve goes out, move your sights over and serve to the right of the intended court.
1979 V. I. Spear Sports Illustr. Racquetball ii. 73 When the live ball came in, the lob shot went out. The hopped-up rubber was just too difficult to control.
2005 Times 27 Apr. (The Game section) 10/2 (caption) George Graham is a frustrated spectator as Tommy Lawrence watches the ball go out in the 1965 FA Cup semi-final at Villa Park.
2. intransitive. To go out for a specified or implied purpose.
a. To march as a soldier; to leave one's home or country for a war or battlefield; (later spec.) to join either of the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745 (historical), or to go to the battlefields of France and Belgium in the First World War (1914–18). Also: †to take part in a duel (obsolete). Frequently in to go out to fight.
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society > armed hostility > war > wage war [verb (intransitive)] > go to war
to take the plainc1380
to go to war or warsc1450
to take the field1482
to go (etc.) on warfare1483
to pass (forth) in warfare1483
field1535
to go out1548
to go to the war(s)1600
to be (also go) on the warpath1841
to wash one's spears1892
society > armed hostility > war > wage war [verb (intransitive)] > go to war > in a foreign country
to go out1917
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. c.viiiv Men goyng out, neuer better at any tyme in all poyntes appoynted, neuer better besene, wyth more courage and gladder wyll.
1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 891 There are manie moe things appointed to the Prince, than to go out before the people to warre.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 114 There are other men fitter to go out then I. View more context for this quotation
1688 P. Rycaut tr. G. de la Vega Royal Comm. Peru (new ed.) vi. xx. 889 Both Principals and Seconds went out to fight in a Field at a good distance from Potocsi.
1785 G. A. Bellamy Apol. Life III. lxiv. 84 Impelled by his natural bravery..he went out as a volunteer to the army in Germany.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) He went out with a brother officer, and was slightly wounded.
1870 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 18) vi. 228 One of the lairds..proposed to go out, on the occasion of one of the risings for the Stuarts.
1890 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 626 He must go out or be under a social ban. Out they go accordingly, and the trained pistol-shot kills his civilian opponent.
1917 S. McKenna Sonia viii. 394 ‘Is David going out?.. What's he in?’ ‘The Midland Fusiliers.’
1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War i. 1 I read the notice that I was under orders for France... Berry, a subaltern of my set,..might pipe to me, ‘Hi, Blunden, we're going out: have a drink;’ I could not dance.
1936 S. Sassoon Sherston's Progress ii. i. 98 She had hoped and prayed that I might get a home-service job; but now she just accepted the fact that I'd got to go out again.
2006 D. Winner Those Feet 263 His face is..full of pluck and hope—the sort of look I hope to see in my general when I go out to fight.
b. With complement indicating the nature of employment. Of a woman or child: to seek employment outside of the home (often considered as characteristic of low social status). Frequently in to go out to service at service n.1 17a. Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > begin working
to fall to work1523
fall1589
to go out1660
to put (also set) to work1694
to turn to1799
1660 J. Bellamy tr. Origen Against Celsus xxvi. 108 He reproaches him with..having a Woman to his Mother, that got her Livelyhood by going out to Service.
1726 A. Castres tr. A. Guevarre Ways & Means for suppressing Beggary 96 As to the young Women, who intend to go out to Service, it will be proper to employ them in all Manner of Work.
1796 C. Durnford & E. H. East Rep. Cases King's Bench VI. 250 The daughter's having gone out as a wet-nurse, which it is said amounts to an emancipation.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxii. 348 Betsy Martin... Goes out charing and washing, by the day.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 330 His boys followed the plough; and his girls went out to service.
1889 C. E. Cameron Lost Wife II. v. 61 ‘Something to do’ meant in my case going out as a governess, or as a companion.
1908 Secret Service 24 Jan. 4/1 Jennie went out to service in a summer hotel and supported her sister.
c. To mix in general society; to go out or away from home for the purpose of leisure or socializing, or to enjoy the nightlife of a town or city.
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society > society and the community > social relations > have social communication [verb (intransitive)] > mix in society
show1631
to go out1735
to see life1763
mix1816
to get out1835
1735 tr. J. Bernard in Bayle's Gen. Dict. Hist. & Crit. (new ed.) III. 266/1 I have no clubs, nor great communication with the living; I seldom go out, and when my ordinary occupations cease, I have nothing else to do but to be weary of myself.
a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) iii. 67 My father, Sir, as we seldom went out, established a domestic kind of drama.
1886 J. McCarthy & R. C. Praed Right Hon'ble I. iii. 46 Betty liked society, and was made for it. She went out incessantly.
1890 Temple Bar Jan. 24 We do not intend to go out at all in Florence—I mean into society.
1939 Life 29 May 36 (advt.) Sure... I'd love to go out tonight. About 9 o'clock.
1989 J. A. Scott Blair 70 Debra wanted to go out all the time.
2000 J. Goodwin Danny Boy v. 117 He likes..going out with his mates, getting loaded and having a ruck on a Saturday night.
d. To go hunting; to ride out (with the hounds) to hunt.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (intransitive)]
huntc1000
chasec1320
sporta1635
to go out1749
shikar1872
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. iv. v. 33 The Favour she had to desire of him, was not to lead her Father through so many Dangers in Hunting; for that, from what she had heard, she was terribly frightened every Time they went out together. View more context for this quotation
1773 G. Washington Diary 22 Dec. (1978) III. 220 Went out after Breakfast with the Dogs. Dragd a fox for an hour or two, but never found.
1855 W. B. Bernard Four Sisters ii. 13 Since then, I confess, my taste has turned to hunting; and, as there are hounds all about, I go out every week.
1877 A. Trollope Amer. Senator I. i. 7 He..is not much thought of..except by those who go out with the hounds.
1932 R. Lehmann Invit. Waltz iii. v. 209 ‘Were you out today?’ ‘Oh yes.’.. ‘Um. Going out on Saturday—?’.. ‘Oh, I thought you meant... I misunderstood. I don't—as a matter of fact, I don't really hunt.’
1967 R. Rendell New Lease of Death ii. 24 He's very conscious of his status..since he bought Forby Hall. Goes out with the Pomfret hounds and all that.
2006 B. Johnson Have I got Views for You 146 They are going out with the hounds this Saturday, and if the hounds pick up a fox, so be it.
e. To travel or move overseas (to a specified country) as a settler, ambassador, missionary, agent, etc.
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1772 Scots Mag. Apr. 200/1 Now-a-days every youth possessed of any interest endeavours to go out as a writer to the Company.
1791 Substance of Rep. Court of Directors Sierra Leone Company 10 The mortality among the settlers who went out has been already accounted for.
1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 466/1 An offer being made to him to go out to Australia.
1861 H. A. Jacobs Incidents Life Slave Girl xiii. 75 I am glad that missionaries go out to the dark corners of the earth.
1917 Crisis Dec. 68/1 Max Yergan..heard that call and went out to India.
1980 J. Turner Lloyd George's Secretariat i. 22 After failing to be elected to All Souls he went out to Africa to assist in reconstruction.
2003 M. Backman & C. Butler Big in Asia xi. 143 One expatriate manager..went out to Japan in 1969 with just US$20,000 to be used to develop a business.
f. Criminals' slang. To go thieving. Obsolete.
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1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 178 Go out, to follow the profession of thieving; two or more persons who usually rob in company, are said to go out together.
1819 J. H. Vaux Memoirs I. xii. 141 We continued to go out with one or other of the gentlemen frequenting the Swan.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales (ed. 2) II. xiii. 289 Two..Dublin thieves, who went out with me, are now..first-rate ‘fellers and stumpers’ in a good clearing gang.
g. More fully to go out on strike. To leave work as part of a strike; to strike. Cf. to come out 2c at come v. Phrasal verbs 1.
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society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > participate in labour relations [verb (intransitive)] > strike
strike1769
to turn out1795
to strike work, tools1803
stick1823
to come out1841
to go out1850
to down tools1855
to hit the bricks1931
1850 Glasgow Herald 17 May About three weeks ago, a hundred of the drivers and stokers went out on strike.
1861 Macmillan's Mag. 4 333/1 There has not been a single case of assault..since the men went out.
1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 28 July 5/5 (headline) Men of two mines at Lethbridge go out.
1947 Billboard 21 June 116/1 The men stopped working and we went out in August and September.
2007 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) (Nexis) 18 Feb. I can't afford to go out on strike.
h. Sport. Of a team, player, etc.: to take to the field of play.
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1878 E. O. Bray Ten of Them xvii. 148 Herbert's eleven won the toss; so the other side went out to field.
1882 N.Y. Times 25 Aug. 3/4 They commenced well, Phillipps playing with care, while Dale went out and hit with great freedom.
1911 Washington Post 23 May 8/2 With a lead of two runs, and only one inning left to play, the Nationals did not feel safe, so they went out and made a couple more in the ninth.
1980 Ebony Apr. 44/2 His trainer..gave Quarry instructions for the eighth round. The fighter went out and scored a knockout.
2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 21 July It is easy to..think too hard. You have to say ‘this is the batting order. Go out and make the runs’.
i. To have a romantic engagement or go on a date. Also: to have a romantic or sexual relationship. Also with together. Cf. to go with —— 1a at Phrasal verbs 2.
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c1907 C. W. Chandler Darkest Adelaide 59 They were always barracking me with being a frightened baby and not going out with boys like they did.
1918 Dial. Notes 5 28 To step (out), to go out with a jane.
1961 A. Vinton Doctor Di at Crossroads i. 10 I'm bad-tempered and broody and going out with brash blondes.
1989 Viz Dec. 31 I don't go out with chicks who have colds all the time.
1991 D. Purcell Place of Stones (1992) viii. 292 The habit had driven Una bonkers while they had been going out together.
2000 P. Beatty Tuff xii. 168 Come on now, we been going out for two years, married for one.
3. intransitive.
a. Of the tide or tidal water: to ebb, recede.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > types of tide [verb (intransitive)] > ebb
falleOE
ebbOE
wanec1290
reflow1429
to go out1595
to run out1608
refloat1632
1595 H. Chettle Piers Plainnes Prentiship sig. H4 He obtained the top of the crag, and the tyde going out continued there til morning.
a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iii. 94 As the Tyde went out, the winde calm'd.
1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India ii. 71 The Tide was still going out, and there was so little water left that our Frigat run a ground.
1708 tr. F. Le Guat New Voy. E.-Indies 70 When the Sea went out, abundance of Fish remain'd Dry.
1770 P. Pittman Present State European Settlem. Missisippi Pref. p. vii When the tide goes out it leaves an abundance of small fishes on the marshes.
a1839 T. H. Bayly Songs, Ballads & Other Poems (1844) II. 19 The perpetual din Of the tide going out, or the tide coming in.
1900 S. J. Weyman Story Francis Cludde (new ed.) v. 57 ‘Well, the tide is going out’, quoth the sailor, dubiously, looking steadily into the fog.
1958 L. G. Green S. Afr. Beachcomber 109 The first beachcombers were..baiting their fish-kraals wherever the rocks allowed them to trap the shoals as the tides went out.
2005 J. Robson Living Next Door to God of Love (2006) 419 The sea was going out.
b. North American. Of ice on a river, lake, etc.: to melt or float away, esp. as temperatures rise in the spring.
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1744 A. Dobbs Acct. Countries adjoining Hudson's Bay 17 13th got the Ship into the Stream, all the Ice gone out of the River.]
1842 Niles' National Reg. 9 Apr. 87/3 Ice went out 22d of February; boats commenced running on the 27th.
1885 Current (Chicago) 31 Oct. 285/1 People gathered on the bank to see the ice go out. It was a grand sight, as the huge cakes..went crashing down over the dam.
1952 Motor Boating May 92/2 He wanted a new craft..ready to be launched from his boathouse the day the ice went out.
2000 N. Jans Tracks of Unseen 107 Deep snow has driven most animals down to the vast willow thickets along the main river, where they'll form loose herds until the ice goes out.
II. Senses not primarily denoting physical movement.
4. intransitive. With adverb complement. To turn out in a specified way. Obsolete.
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a1250 Lofsong Louerde in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 213 For to schewen hu þis hope to þin ones help schal gon me betere ut þen dude er þe oðres.
5. intransitive.
a. To be issued; to be published. Also of a report, rumour, etc.: to circulate, become widely known.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxiv. 50 Fro þe lord þe word is gon out [L. egressus est]: we mow not ouȝt out of þe plesyng of hym.
1439–40 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1439 §30. m. 9 A writte..may go oute..unto the schirref..commaundynge hym..to proclame in tho twey schires nexte suynge after the..resceit of the saide writte.
?1510 T. More tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. b.ivv He lytle forced whithir his workis went owt vndre his owne name or not.
1614 C. Brooke Ghost Richard III sig. F1v Report went out; and whispring Rumor drew From eu'ry quarter.
a1628 J. Preston Treat. Effectuall Faith vi. 175 in Breast-plate of Faith (1630) The Decree was gone out, there was nothing in the World, for ought hee saw, that could hinder it.
1702 F. Atterbury 3rd Let. to Clergyman in Country 16/1 The Writ went out purely for the sake of the Clause, not the Clause for the sake of the Writ.
1772 Scots Mag. Dec. 663/2 Sir George Colebroke..informed the Committee, That orders went out last March or April twelvemonth.
1851 A. Prentice Hist. Sketches & Personal Recoll. Manch. 9 A rumour went out that there would be a riot that evening.
1892 Law Times Rep. 67 143/1 They allowed this prospectus to go out with statements in it which were false.
1913 Electr. Rev. 11 Oct. 705/2 At the close of each conference, report goes out that the meeting was one of the most successful ever held by the organization.
1962 H. M. Wright tr. J. Gernet Daily Life in China (1970) iv. 171 About 1080 an imperial decree went out asking the most capable doctors..to give information about their most effective remedies.
1975 Rotarian June 20/2 The call went out for help.
2003 A. Stott Hannah More: First Victorian xiii. 286 The religious works of More's later years..went out under her own name.
b. To be broadcast on radio or television. In early use: spec. to be sent as a telegraphic message (now disused).
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society > communication > broadcasting > [verb (intransitive)] > be broadcast
to go out1917
air1974
1917 Radio Communication: Hearings before Comm. Merchant Marine & Fisheries (U.S. House of Representatives, 64th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 351 The only way to do it is to hold the owners of the stations strictly responsible for everything that goes out.
1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 17071/1 The report of his visit went out by wireless to Suva in Fiji.
1949 Agric. Estimating & Reporting Services (U.S. State Dept. Agric.) 173/2 The first radio market news broadcast by voice went out on February 19, 1921, over the radio station of the University of Minnesota.
1968 Listener 26 Sept. 420/1 Yorkshire's Gazette, a drama series about the lives and hard times on a weekly paper, goes out in London at 11 p.m.
1971 R. Busby Deadlock xiv. 210 ‘Cut—for Christ's sake, cut. This is all bloody going out.’.. The screens went blank.
2012 N. Robinson Live from Downing St. vii. 259 The whole exchange was going out live on the TV news channels.
6. intransitive.
a. Of a fire, flame, etc.: to be extinguished. Also in extended use and in figurative contexts. [Compare Middle Dutch utegaen to be extinguished (Dutch uitgaan ), specific use of utegaen outgo v.]
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > become dark [verb (intransitive)] > go out or be extinguished
quench?c1225
aquencha1250
to go out?a1425
quenta1500
to black out1934
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 31 His laumpe gase oute.
c1450 (?a1400) Sege Melayne (1880) l. 449 (MED) All if þe crosse were makede of tree, The fire ȝode owtt þat come þer nee.
1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse ii. xi. f. 23v When I came into the firste streate my torche went out, that with great paine I coulde skarse gette home, by reason it was so darke.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. i. 250 Thinks thou the fierie Feuer will goe out With Titles blowne from Adulation? View more context for this quotation
1683 Apol. Protestants France v. 59 The Sun goes not out when it is Eclipsed.
1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) iv. 640 Thus at her felt approach, and secret might, Art after Art goes out, and all is Night.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I clxxxiv. 95 Out went the light.
1889 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Dec. 259 My cigar went out.
1967 S. Mackay Old Crow xii. 57 The dry wick sputtered, smoke swirled round the glass globe and the lamp went out.
1998 M. Waites Little Triggers (1999) x. 80 ‘What you doin' tonight?’ Larkin gave a sad smile. ‘I'm busy.’ A light went out in Jane's eyes. ‘Right. Sorry.’
b. Of an electric light, power supply, service, etc.: to stop working; to be switched off.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of things, actions, or processes
restOE
leathc1275
stintc1275
slakea1300
ceasec1374
slocka1400
batec1400
lissec1400
stanchc1420
surcease1439
remain1480
stopa1529
break1530
decease1538
falla1555
to shut up1609
subside1654
drop1697
low1790
to go out1850
1850 ‘Young Gent.’ Squints through Opera Glass v. 10 The gas went out as it's very apt to do in New-York.
1890 Electr. World 7 June 386/2 Their switch-board caught fire, machine began ‘flashing’, and lights went out.
1918 D. Haig Diary 31 May in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 417 An air raid started and the lights went out.
1942 Baltimore Sun 29 Dec. 13/2 The telephone service had gone out temporarily.
1998 Data Communic. Internat. Feb. 108/2 The service is line-powered and works even when the electricity goes out.
2013 Huffington Post (Nexis) 7 Dec. Buses don't arrive on schedule, train doors get stuck, and wifi goes out for a week.
7. intransitive. Of a year or other period of time: to pass, elapse, come to an end.See also March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb at March n.2 c.
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the world > time > period > year > [verb (intransitive)] > of a year (to end)
to go out?1529
?1529 S. Fish Supplicacyon for Beggers sig. A5 If eny man yn your sessions dare be so hardy to endyte a prest of eny suche cryme he hath or the yere go out suche a yoke of heresye leyd in his necke that it maketh him wisshe that he had not done it.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) xcvii. sig. C.iv/2 Or thys yere go out he shal be crowned kynge of a puissant realme.
1611 R. Fenton Treat. Vsurie ii. xv. 104 Doe what they will, the moneths goe out, and the money comes in.
1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding iv. vi, in Comedies & Trag. 133 You'l break your Covenant ere the year go out.
1722 Bibliotheca Biblica II. 276 The Old Year goes out, and a New Year comes in.
1804 A. Young Farmer's Cal. 417 Before this month goes out the lambs of the flock, should be weaned.
1896 Daily News 7 Dec. 3/7 The year will go out upon a much better state of things all round in the manufacturing industries.
1914 Princeton Alumni Weekly 7 Jan. 286/1 Vol. II, No. 1 of the Come Back went to press as the old year went out.
1928 N. Shepherd Quarry Wood xviii. 293 The year went out in sunshine.
2012 Jrnl. Rec. (Oklahoma City) (Nexis) 6 Mar. I would only expect them [sc. sales] to get stronger as the year goes out.
8. intransitive (a) With complement usually indicating the degree attained. To graduate. Chiefly Oxford University and Cambridge University. Obsolete. (b) To graduate with a B.A. in a specified subject, or in honours. Chiefly Cambridge University. Also in extended use. Now chiefly historical.
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > take degree [verb (transitive)]
to go out1602
1602 W. Watson tr. E. Pasquier Iesuites Catech. ii. iii. f. 77v Hee should goe out [Fr. passer] Maister or Doctor, vpon the onely credit & authoritie of his Generall.
1647 R. Fanshawe tr. B. Guarini Pastor Fido iv. ix. 157 Thy bow Th' hast pli'd so well about these words, that now Th' art gone out thy Arts-master.
1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 209 That I should so suddenly go out poet.
1691 G. Langbaine Acct. Eng. Dramatick Poets 237 Here he took his Batchelors and Masters Degrees, and in the Year 1627. he went out Batchelor of Divinity.
1705 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 7 Dec. (1885) I. 119 Who went out A.M. June 27, 1684, and B.D. Feb. 4, 1695.
1863 New Monthly Mag. 127 113 Educated at Göttingen, he went out in law.
1880 A. Trollope Duke's Children I. iii. 33 He had gone out in honours, having been a second class man.
1890 Guardian 18 June 1000/1 She went out in natural science, but her place in the class is not recorded.
1984 N. Annan Leslie Stephen (rev. ed.) i. 24 Sir James Stephen had taken the alternative course of going out in law.
9. intransitive. Of money or a sum of money, cheque, etc.: to be paid out or spent; to be debited or withdrawn from a bank account.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > spend or incur expense [verb (intransitive)] > be spent
goc1330
to go out1622
issuea1645
1622 J. Mabbe in tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 102 My moneys still going out, and none comming in.
1658 A. Jackson Annot. Eccles. x. 100 in Annot. Old Test. Doctrinall Bks. Their money still going out for the defraying of these their riotous expences.
1838 Dublin Rev. Apr. 504 Little money went out, either for what Tony ate or drank.
1896 G. B. Pratt in E. I. Rood Papers World's Congr. Ornithol. 77 My library began to increase. It was apparent that as the dollars went out for books my pocket-book flattened.
1909 Christian Nation 8 Dec. 15/1 In the first hour two thousand dollars went out over the counter, and still the people came.
1980 Boys' Life Feb. 66/2 Stuart hired many servants and gave lavish parties. His money went out faster than it came in.
2013 Wexford People (Nexis) 12 Nov. I used the ATM machine on Thursday and the money went out on Friday.
10. intransitive. With to. To be drawn or impelled by a strong feeling of affection or (now more commonly) sympathy. Also of love, sympathy, etc.: to be felt for or expressed to someone or something. Frequently (and earliest) in one's (also the) heart goes out to —— at heart n., int., and adv. Phrases 3d(b).
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the mind > emotion > compassion > feel pity for [verb (transitive)] > sympathize with
yfeeleOE
to feel for ——a1533
sympathize1607
to go out1628
1628 W. Struther Christian Observ. & Resol. xcv. 269 The more the heart goe out to outward thinges, it is drawen the more from it selfe, and from God.
1705 J. Webster Sacramental Serm. v. 44 My Heart went out to you long ago, I loved you with an Everlasting Love, when ye were nothing.
1881 Atlantic Monthly May 594/2 His own sympathy went out fully to cases of individual suffering.
1890 Rev. of Reviews Nov. 428/1 His whole soul goes out in sympathy to Edmund Burke.
1891 Pictorial World 19 Dec. 239/1 The love of a nation goes out to its great men.
1940 Boys' Life Dec. 27/1 Curiously enough my thoughts go out to America.
1959 C. A. Robinson Athens in Age of Pericles iv. 64 A skeptic and a realist, his sympathies went out to the downtrodden and oppressed.
2005 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 13 Feb. 19/3 My heart goes out to the beggars of this city.
11. intransitive.
a. To die. Chiefly with complement indicating the manner of dying.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
1635 Bp. J. Hall Char. of Man 36 He that came into the world with cryes, goes out with groanes.
1657 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra (Job xviii. 6) 162 He and his prosperity shall dye together: he shall go out in a snuff, and leave nothing behind him but a detestable name.
1703 M. Prior Ode to Col. Villiers 38 The ancient sage, who did so long maintain, That bodies die, but souls return again, With all the births and deaths he had in store, Went out Pythagoras, and came no more.
1862 F. Rowan tr. Medit. Death & Eternity (1863) 13 What, then, is that which we call to die? To go out like a light.
1891 ‘S. C. Scrivener’ Our Fields & Cities 10 [Said of a dying man] He will go out with the tide, may be.
1993 R. Shilts Conduct Unbecoming vi. lxxi. 675 He hoped to aggrandize himself by dying a hero's death, going out in a blaze of glory.
b. colloquial (originally U.S.). To fall asleep; to faint, lose consciousness. Esp. in to go out like a light: to fall asleep instantly; to lose consciousness suddenly (cf. senses 6a, 6b).
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (intransitive)] > go to sleep or fall asleep
to fall, lull, lay (bring obs.) asleepOE
to fall overa1752
to go off1813
to drop off1820
to fall off1822
to get off to sleep1837
to fall off1862
tope1863
sleepy-baw1907
to go out1928
to zizz off1962
1928 Washington Post 25 Oct. 11/3 She said..you better lie down a little and I did. And I went out like a light.
1934 J. M. Cain Postman always rings Twice ix. 76 A doctor was working on my arm. I went out again as soon as I saw it. It was running blood.
1934 R. Chandler in Black Mask Oct. 15/1 Something swished and I went out like a light.
1990 Christian Woman Apr. 23/2 You just swoon—you faint—you very softly go out, and you feel like you're just floating.
2005 J. Schinas Kids in Cockpit iii. 71/2 He goes out like a light as soon as his head touches the pillow.
12. intransitive.
a. Of a government: to come to an end; (of a government minister) to be dismissed from office; to retire from or leave office.
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society > authority > office > withdrawing from or vacating office > vacate office [verb (intransitive)]
resign1395
recede1452
retirec1598
to take, lay down, resign the fascesa1625
to go out1642
to sing one's nunc dimittis1642
to make one's bowa1656
to lay down1682
to swear off1698
vacate1812
to send in one's papers1872
to step down1890
to stand down1926
society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (intransitive)] > vacate an office or position > resign
resign1395
resignate1531
to go out1642
to lay down1682
to swear off1698
to turn up1819
to pull the pin1860
to send in one's papers1872
to step down1890
to snatch it or one's time1941
1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. 28 It would joy me much and satisfie me more, if as one government goes out, I could see another come in, and that without an Inter-regnum of Commissioners.
1689 in J. Sage Case Afflicted Clergy Scotl. (1690) 99 The King and Queens Majesties..do Ordain the saids Ministers that went out, or were laid aside,..to be restored and reponed; and do hereby repone and restore them to their respective Churches and Benefices.
1763 C. Churchill Ghost iv. 184 If, a matter of much doubt, The present Minister goes out, Fain would I know on what pretext I can stand fairly with the next?
1820 Examiner No. 664. 846/2 The burthen of all our speeches should be, Ministers must go out.
1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion I. ix. 186 It is an absolute certainty that the Government will go out.
1890 T. F. Tout in F. Y. Powell et al. Hist. Eng. III. 173 Stanley..went out for fear of the Appropriation Clause.
1916 D. Haig Diary 4 May in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 185 If we attack and fail,..the French Government would certainly go out.
1930 Times 1 May 10/5 Mrs. Hamilton, M.P...prophesies that ‘more will be done’ before the Government goes out.
2007 Parramatta (Austral.) Advertiser (Nexis) 28 Nov. 1 It's sad to see the Prime Minister go out that way.
b. Cricket, Baseball, etc. Of a team: to be dismissed from batting. Also of a batter: to be dismissed.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > end one's innings
to go out1735
1735 London Evening Post 17 June London headed the county 42 Notches before they went out.
1854 J. Pycroft Cricket Field (ed. 2) xi. 247 Had not an easy catch been missed, the Eleven of All England would have gone out for a run apiece.
1888 A. G. Steel in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) v. 232 Nothing would induce the injured batsman to remain..he had been given out and was going out.
1891 Strand Mag. 2 518/2 [In Tipcat] If either of the cats fall to the ground, both batters go out and the feeders get their turn.
1915 C. Mathewson Catcher Craig xiv. 186 Mr. Williams, first batter, was an easy victim to the infield, going out at first.
1991 L. Koppett New Thinking Fan's Guide to Baseball 62 Agee did bounce out, and the next two Mets went out, and the first batter to face Koosman in the second was Ron Santo, the Cub's captain.
2012 C. Finch Death in Small Hours xxviii. 221 When he finally went out, bowled, it was for a score of seventy-three.
c. To be knocked out of a competition, sports tournament, etc. Also: to be eliminated from a competition by losing to a specified team, player, etc.
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1870 Sporting Gaz. 2 Apr. 243/3 Pole jump... Hamilton went out at the first round.
1927 Times 20 Aug. 5/6 The holders, Preston (Brighton), after an easy win in the preliminary, went out in the first round to Cheltenham.
1974 Black Belt Dec. 68/2 During the semi-finals there were only two players left in contention... Three other players had all gone out in the same round, each with five points.
1986 Tennis World July 10/1 John and Stuart Tucker..went out to John and Anthony Middleton..7-5, 1-6, 6-1.
2014 Independent (Nexis) 22 July 56 Steven Gerrard said he ‘agonised’ over whether to hang up his international boots after the disappointment of the World Cup in Brazil, where England went out after the first round.
d. Games. To win or bring to an end a game by obtaining a certain score, using up all of one's tiles, playing out all of one's cards, etc. Cf. to make out 7 at make v.1 Phrasal verbs 1.
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1875 Westm. Papers 1 May 17 As one side or other must make the odd trick, and the chances are even, in sixteen games A B will go out in one hand.
1924 M. C. Work Mah-Jongg Up-to-Date i. 32 The Chinese word ‘Woo’ (meaning peace) has been extensively used by many American writers in the same sense as it is used by Chinese players; viz., to Mah-Jongg, to win the game, to go out.
1951 Esquire Jan. 69/2 A player wins 25 points for his side for going out (melding or discarding his last card).
1986 Darts World Sept. 60/5 The maestro went out in 14 darts.
2011 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 16 Dec. 5 I went out with ‘inbreds’ for 76, getting double ‘o’ on his rack, to make my score 500 to his 498.
13. intransitive. To become obsolete or outmoded; = to go out of fashion at fashion n. 11.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [verb (intransitive)] > become old-fashioned
musty1631
to go out1772
fossilize1845
stale1893
date1924
1772 G. A. Stevens Songs Comic & Satyrical lii. 98 Old fashions come in, and new fashions go out, As Vanity dresses the Play.
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham IV. lxxvi. 96 ‘Fashions change every day, my Lord,’ said he, pausing:—‘Phaetons are going out.’
1841 Punch 1 113/1 To use the flippant idiom of the day, they [sc. pockets] are going out!
1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxv. 217 The practice of the duel in England had utterly gone out.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 22 Apr. 1/2 Very little yellow is worn—it seems to have quite gone out.
1940 W. Eisner Spirit 22 Sept. in Spirit Arch. (2000) I. 136/1 Mobs went out with silent movies. Crime today is run like a government.
1977 Black Belt Mar. 48/1 Self-indulgent, love-and-peace attitudes went out with the 60s.
2008 E. Stalder Fashion 101 69/1 The original style went out, but less flamboyant versions of zippered pants have reemerged since.
14. intransitive.
a. Of a part of the body, esp. the back or knee: to go out of joint; to become dislocated or otherwise damaged or unstable.
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1886 H. Marsh Dis. Joints xvi. 196 If he caught his toe in the carpet, or otherwise entangled it, the knee ‘went out’.
1954 Princeton Alumni Weekly 29 Oct. 14/1 His shoulder went out on the play and it was obvious from his inability to straighten up when he left the field that he could not return.
1994 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) 30 Jan. ii. 5/4 There was the time his back went out while lifting a heavy beam, putting his work on hold for a few weeks.
2003 R. Yancey Burning in Homeland v. 263 Ned had stepped out to visit an ailing parishioner (Mrs. Beverly Wilt, whose hip has gone out again).
b. Of a mechanical device, part, etc.: to fail or break.
ΚΠ
1902 Railway Accidents 66/1 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 1232) LXXXIX. 383 It [sc. the train] was brought to a stand by the vacuum brake going out, the pipe having been damaged.
1917 13th Ann. Convent. Assoc. Superintendents of Poor 42 The boiler has gone out and have got to get another right away.
1959 N.Y. Times 24 Aug. 23/6 The clutch went out on a 1904 Franklin.
1977 Pop. Mech. May 243/2 The power steering went out soon after I got the car.
2013 Evening Standard (Nexis) 4 Oct. 9 Maybe this is a freak accident. Maybe her brakes went out.
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