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go out1(Of a fire or light) be extinguished: a few minutes later the lights went out...- Tal saw the light from the fire go out, and decided that it would be wise to return to his own hut.
- I think the street lights went out too - it was pitch black.
- Then all the lights went out and the building was blacked out.
Synonyms be turned off, be extinguished; stop burning, die out, be doused, be quenched 2(Of the tide) ebb.Water subsided in some areas as the tide went out but the diversion signs were back up again at high tide on Thursday morning and Thursday evening....- As the tide went out yesterday, cavalcades of cars and transit vans poured into the area, with a Spanish lorry parked at Bardsea and a ship on standby in the bay waiting to be loaded.
- Otherwise they would have suffered another two and a half hour wait before the tide went out again, by which time it would have been dark.
3Leave one’s home to go to a social event: I’m going out for dinner...- I wasn't a very social person, nor did I enjoy social events or going out on the town.
- My job is quite social, and everybody goes out after work.
- Poor levels of lighting had been making elderly residents reluctant to go out at night to events in the Butler Community Centre or even to the local shops.
4Carry on a regular romantic or sexual relationship: he was going out with her best friend...- I had had a bad relationship a year prior to going out with him and things were good between us, we seemed to click (well, at least I thought we did).
- Actually, he's going out with someone else now.
- I was going out with this guy for two years and all that time he had been seeing another girl.
Synonyms see, take out, be someone's boyfriend/girlfriend, be romantically involved with, go around with, keep company informal date, go steady with, go with Australian informal track square with British informal, dated walk out with North American informal, dated step out with dated court, woo 5Used to convey someone’s deep sympathy or similar feeling: her heart went out to the pitiful figure...- Our deepest sympathies go out to the victims and the families of all those involved.
- Our thoughts and deepest sympathies go out to his family and fiends.
- ‘We have expressed our sympathies to the family involved and our heart goes out to them at this very sad time,’ he said.
6 Golf Play the first nine holes in a round of eighteen holes: McAllister went out in 43...- Faldo, playing with Ian Poulter, one of the next generation of English young guns, got off to a great start with birdies at the second and fourth holes to go out in 34.
- When I bogeyed those three holes going out, I was a bit concerned but I held it together after that.
7(In some card games) be the first to dispose of all the cards in one’s hand.The play ends when a player goes out, i.e. disposes of all the cards in hand....- As a further development of the above ideas, some players do not allow a player to go out by discarding a card that could have been melded.
- Getting rid of your last card is called going out.
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