Definition of 'come out'

Verb

1. appear or become visible; make a showing; "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again"
      Synonyms: come on turn up surface show up
2. come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves"
      Synonyms: issue emerge come forth go forth egress
3. be issued or published; "Did your latest book appear yet?"; "The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet"
      Synonyms: appear
4. result or end; "How will the game turn out?"
      Synonyms: turn out
5. come off; "His hair and teeth fell out"
      Synonyms: fall out
6. take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal; "Jerry came in third in the Marathon"
      Synonyms: place come in
7. make oneself visible; take action; "Young people should step to the fore and help their peers"
      Synonyms: come to the fore step forward come forward step up step to the fore
8. bulge outward; "His eyes popped"
      Synonyms: start protrude pop pop out bulge bulge out bug out
9. to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality; "This actor outed last year"
      Synonyms: come out of the closet out
10. be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The truth will out"
       Synonyms: out
11. break out; "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted"
       Synonyms: erupt break through push through

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