come out

/kəm aʊt/

/kəm aʊt/

Other forms: came out; coming out; comes out

Definitions of come out

1. verb

   appear or become visible; make a showing
   synonyms: come on, show up, surface, turn up

   type of:

   appear

   come into sight or view
2. verb

   be issued or published
   synonyms: appear

   type of:

   happen, materialise, materialize

   come into being; become reality
3. verb

   make oneself visible; take action
   synonyms: come forward, come to the fore, step forward, step to the fore, step up

   type of:

   act, move

   perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
4. verb

   come out of
   “The words seemed to come out by themselves”

   synonyms: come forth, egress, emerge, go forth, issue

   types:

   pop out

   come out suddenly or forcefully

   radiate

   issue or emerge in rays or waves

   leak

   enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure

   escape

   issue or leak, as from a small opening

   fall

   come out; issue

   debouch

   pass out or emerge; especially of rivers

   fall out

   come off
5. verb

   come off
   synonyms: fall out

   type of:

   come forth, egress, emerge, go forth, issue

   come out of
6. verb

   break out
   synonyms: break through, erupt, push through

   erupt

   appear on the skin

   types:

   dehisce

   burst or split open

   type of:

   appear

   come into sight or view
7. verb

   result or end
   synonyms: turn out

   types:

   eventuate

   come out in the end

   work out

   happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well

   type of:

   cease, end, finish, stop, terminate

   have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
8. verb

   take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
   synonyms: come in, place

   type of:

   rank

   take or have a position relative to others
9. verb

   bulge outward
   synonyms: bug out, bulge, bulge out, pop, pop out, protrude, start

   type of:

   change form, change shape, deform

   assume a different shape or form
10. verb

    be made known; be disclosed or revealed
    synonyms: out
11. verb

    to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
    synonyms: come out of the closet, out

    type of:

    break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, 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