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Verb: come out  kúm awt
  1. Appear or become visible; make a showing
    "The sun finally came out after days of rain";
    - turn up, surface, show up
     
  2. Be issued or published
    "The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet";
    - appear
     
  3. Be made known; be disclosed or revealed
    "The truth will come out";
    - out
     
  4. To state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
    "This actor came out of the closet last year";
    - come out of the closet [informal], out
     
  5. Come out of
    "The words seemed to come out by themselves";
    - issue, emerge, come forth, go forth, egress
     
  6. Result or end
    "The experiment came out exactly as predicted";
    - turn out
     
  7. 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
     
  8. Bulge outward
    "His eyes came out";
    - start, protrude, pop, pop out, bulge, bulge out, bug out [US, informal]
     
  9. Drop out
    "His hair and teeth came out";
    - fall out
     
  10. Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
    "Jerry came out third in the Marathon";
    - place, come in
     
  11. 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