# go out
## English
### Pronunciation

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### Verb

go out (third-person singular simple present goes out, present participle going out, simple past went out, past participle gone out)
* (intransitive) To leave, especially a building.
    Please go out through the back door.
* (intransitive, idiomatic) To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.
    Antonym: stay in
    They were going to stay in and read, but instead went out shopping.
    On their first date they went out to dinner at a restaurant.
    Let's go out tonight and have some fun!
** 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke viij:[5], folios lxxxvj, verso – lxxxvij, recto:A ſower went out to ſowe his ſeede / and as he ſowed / ſome fell by the waye ſyde / and hit was troden vnder fete / and the foules of the ayre devoured it vp.
** 1986 September 8, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):It seems like we go out for pizza a lot these days.
* (intransitive) To be eliminated from a competition.
    Our team went out in the third round.
* (intransitive) To come to an end, by nature or by an unseen external agent.
** To be turned off or extinguished.
    The lights went out while I was taking a shower.
** To go unconscious; to pass out.
    When I hit him, he hit the floor and went out.
** To be drained from; to disappear from somebody.
    After diagnosis, all his confidence went out of him.
** To become extinct, to expire.
*** 1922 October, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] XXVIII”, in Last Poems, London: Grant Richards Ltd., →OCLC, page 54:And cold the poor man lies at night, / And so goes out the year.
** To die.
    As much as you may want to plan your funeral, you can't control when you go out.
*** 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
    A motorcycle cop led the funeral procession & with all the cabs pulling up the rear we were 5–6 blocks long. The cops even blocked off streets for us. The guy went out like a goddamn mayor.
* (intransitive, card games) To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
    Leon made two canastas, then went out by melding treys.
* (intransitive) To pass out of fashion.
    Antonym: come in
    He thought Nehru jackets went out in the late seventies.
** 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section II, page 24:And ‘blubbing’ . . . Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. 1920s schoolboy slang could be due for a revival.
* (intransitive, of a couple) To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.
    They've been going out for three years now, but still live apart.
    Jack and Susan are going out.
* (intransitive, with with) To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
    Do you think she will go out with anyone this year?
** 1978, Joe Jackson, Is She Really Going Out with Him?
* (intransitive, colloquial) To fail.
    I'd like to help clear the field, but my knee went out on me.
* (intransitive, with on) To spend the last moments of a show (while playing something).
    Thank you for introducing us to your new album. Which song should we go out on?
* (intransitive, of the tide) To recede; to ebb.
    Antonym: come in
* (intransitive, usually of one's heart) To sympathize with; to express positive feelings towards.
    Our thoughts and prayers go out to those afflicted by the tragedy.
    My heart went out to her, but there was nothing I could do.
* (obsolete) To take part in a duel (with). [17th–19th c.]
** 1789 May 27, [John Moore], chapter III, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 20:He went out at the firſt hint with the Neapolitan, and being an admirable ſwordſman, wounded and diſarmed him; […]
** 1890 December, Cornhill Magazine, page 626:He must go out or be under a social ban. Out they go accordingly, and the trained pistol-shot kills his civilian opponent.
* (intransitive, UK, broadcasting) To be broadcast.
    The first episode of the show goes out on Saturday.

#### Synonyms

* (have a romantic relationship): date; see also Thesaurus:date

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* outgo