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单词 go out
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go out

phrasal verb with go uk/ɡəʊ/us/ɡoʊ/verb present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone

(LEAVE)

A1 to leave a room or building, especially in order to do something for entertainment:

Please close the door as you go out.
Do you want to go out for a drink after work?
It's terribly smoky in here - I'm just going out for a breath of fresh air.
[ + -ing verb ] She goes out partying with her friends every weekend.

More examples

  • 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:

How long have you been going out with him?
They'd been going out (together/with each other) for almost five years before he moved in with her.

More examples

  • 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.

Compare
come in

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:

When I woke up the fire had gone out.

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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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Giving out light
Stop having or doing something

(SPORT/SPORTS)

UK to lose when you are playing in a sports competition, so that you must stop playing in the competition:

England went out to France in the second round of the championship.

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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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