Verb: come out kúm awt
- Appear or become visible; make a showing
"The sun finally came out after days of rain";
- turn up, surface, show up
- Be issued or published
"The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet";
- appear
- Be made known; be disclosed or revealed
"The truth will come out";
- out
- To state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
"This actor came out of the closet last year";
- come out of the closet [informal], out
- Come out of
"The words seemed to come out by themselves";
- issue, emerge, come forth, go forth, egress
- Result or end
"The experiment came out exactly as predicted";
- turn out
- Make oneself visible; take action
"The protesters came out in force";
- come to the fore, step forward, come forward, step up, step to the fore
- Bulge outward
"His eyes came out";
- start, protrude, pop, pop out, bulge, bulge out, bug out [US, informal]
- Drop out
"His hair and teeth came out";
- fall out
- Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
"Jerry came out third in the Marathon";
- place, come in
- Break out
"The sun came out from behind the clouds";
- erupt, break through, push through
Derived forms: came out, comes out, coming out, come out
Type of: act, appear, break, bring out, cease, change form, change shape, come, come up, deform, disclose, discover, divulge, emerge, end, expose, finish, give away, happen, lay bare, let on, let out, materialise [Brit], materialize, move, rank, reveal, stop, terminate, uncover, unwrap
Encyclopedia: Come out