Dictionary entry details
• COME OUT (verb)
Meaning:
Appear or become visible; make a showing
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
come on; come out; show up; turn up; surface
Context examples:
She turned up at the funeral / I hope the list key is going to surface again
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
appear (come into sight or view)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Come out of
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
come forth; egress; go forth; emerge; come out; issue
Context examples:
Water issued from the hole in the wall / The words seemed to come out by themselves
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come out"):
pop out (come out suddenly or forcefully)
come out; fall out (come off)
debouch (pass out or emerge; especially of rivers)
fall (come out; issue)
escape (issue or leak, as from a small opening)
leak (enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure)
radiate (issue or emerge in rays or waves)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Be issued or published
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
come out; appear
Context examples:
Did your latest book appear yet? / The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
happen; materialise; materialize (come into being; become reality)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Meaning:
Result or end
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
come out; turn out
Context example:
How will the game turn out?
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come out"):
eventuate (come out in the end)
work out (happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Come off
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
fall out; come out
Context example:
His hair and teeth fell out
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
come forth; come out; egress; emerge; go forth; issue (come out of)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
come in; come out; place
Context example:
Jerry came in third in the Marathon
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
rank (take or have a position relative to others)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Meaning:
Make oneself visible; take action
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
come forward; come to the fore; step forward; step to the fore; step up; come out
Context example:
Young people should step to the fore and help their peers
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Bulge outward
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
bug out; bulge out; pop; pop out; protrude; bulge; come out; start
Context example:
His eyes popped
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
change form; change shape; deform (assume a different shape or form)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
To state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
come out of the closet; out; come out
Context example:
This actor outed last year
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; impart; let on; let out; reveal; unwrap (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Be made known; be disclosed or revealed
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
out; come out
Context example:
The truth will out
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Break out
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
push through; break through; erupt; come out
Context example:
The tooth erupted and had to be extracted
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
appear (come into sight or view)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come out"):
dehisce (burst or split open)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
