Meanings
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1
adv
Away from the inside of a place or container.
The cat ran out from under the bed.
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2
adv
Away from home or one's usual place.
They went out for dinner last night.
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3
adj
No longer fashionable or popular.
Those wide ties are completely out these days.
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4
verb
To publicly reveal a private fact about someone, especially their sexuality.
The magazine outed the politician against his wishes.
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Etymology
From Middle English out, oute, from a combination of Old English ūt (“out”, preposition & adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *ūt, from Proto-Germanic *ūt (“out”); and Old English ūte (“outside; without”, adverb), from Proto-Germanic *ūtai (“out; outside”); both from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“upwards, away”). Cognates Cognate with Scots oot (“out”), Yola out, outh, udh, ut, uth (“out”), North Frisian üt, ütj (“out”), Saterland Frisian uut (“out of”), West Frisian út (“out”), Cimbrian aus, auz (“out, outwards”), Dutch uit (“out”), German, Luxembourgish aus (“out”), Yiddish אויס (oys, “over, finis…