go out
(LEAVE)
A1 to leave a room or building, especially in order to do something for entertainment:
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- She likes to go out at the weekend.
- I'm just going out for a walk. Do you want to come?
- What time do you want to go out?
- Tony forgot to take an umbrella when he went out. I hope it doesn't rain.
- He's just gone out. Can I take a message?
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Departing
- abandon
- absquatulate
- backward
- be ready to roll idiom
- bog
- desertion
- drive
- go down
- hit
- piss
- push along
- push off
- ready
- run
- run away
- sally
- track
- walk off (somewhere)
- walk out
- without (so much as) a backward glance idiom
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(RELATIONSHIP)
B1 to have a romantic and usually sexual relationship with someone:
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- They went out with each other for five years before getting married.
- She's going out with one of her colleagues.
- He hasn't gone out with anyone since he got divorced two years ago.
- He has gone out with a string of beautiful women.
- She will only go out with men who are taller than her.
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Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships
- adulteress
- affinal
- as husband and wife idiom
- be an item idiom
- be shacked up idiom
- hear wedding bells idiom
- hitched
- honest
- husband
- intermarriage
- marriage counseling
- marriage equality
- marriageable
- marry
- marry in haste, repent at leisure idiom
- shack
- shack up
- something
- together
- wedlock
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(SEA)
If the tide goes out, it moves back and covers less of the beach.
Examples
- Is the tide coming in or going out?
- When the tide goes out in the estuary, cows graze on the marshes.
- You can only see the beach when the tide has gone out.
- The tide has gone out.
- At about three o'clock, the tide started to go out.
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Floods, tides & currents
- backwash
- come
- current
- ebb
- eddy
- flooded
- floodgate
- flooding
- floodplain
- high tide
- high water mark
- inundate
- low-water mark
- neap tide
- overfall
- tidal
- undertow
- water
- waterlogged
- whirlpool
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(LIGHT/FIRE)
B1 If a light or something that is burning goes out, it stops producing light or heat:
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Stopping fires
- beat
- beat sth out
- blow
- blow (sth) out
- damp
- damp sth down
- douse
- extinguish
- go
- gutter
- quench
- smother
- snuff
- snuff sth out
- sprinkler
- sprinkler system
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(SPORT/SPORTS)
UK to lose when you are playing in a sports competition, so that you must stop playing in the competition:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Losing and being defeated
- admit
- battering
- capitulate
- defeat
- downfall
- drubbing
- fallen
- give
- give in
- go down
- knuckle under
- leave, go off, etc. with your tail between your legs idiom
- meet
- say
- squeaker
- tail
- throw
- throw in the towel idiom 1
- tie
- you win! idiom
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