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Nouns (4)

out

n. (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball; "you only get 3 outs per inning"

out

n. a return or service that does not land within the in-bounds limits

rub, wipe

n. the act of rubbing or wiping; "he gave the hood a quick rub"

Verbs (10)

out

v. reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle; "The gay actor was outed last week"; "Someone outed a CIA agent"

wipe, pass over

v. rub with a circular motion; "wipe the blackboard"; "He passed his hands over the soft cloth"

wipe, obliterate, efface

v. remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"

out, come out, be disclosed, be revealed

v. be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The truth will out"

Adverbs (5)

out

adv. outside of an enclosed space: "She is out"

out, away

adv. away from the reference point: "He kicked his legs out"

out, away from home

adv. "They went out last night"

Adjectives (30)

out

adj. not worth considering as a possibility; "a picnic is out because of the weather"

out

adj. no longer fashionable; "that style is out these days"

out

adj. directed outward or serving to direct something outward; "the out doorway"; "the out basket"

out

adj. out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election; "now the Democrats are out"

out, exterior

adj. outside or external; "the out surface of a ship's hull"

out, outlying

adj. outer or outlying; "the out islands"

out, unfashionable

adj. (unpopular)

out, retired

adj. not allowed to continue to bat or run; "he was tagged out at second on a close play"; "he fanned out"

out, extinct, extinguished, quenched

adj. being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out"

out, gone, away

adj. not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"; "everyone is gone now"; "the departed guests"

out, kayoed, KO'd, stunned, knocked out

adj. knocked unconscious by a heavy blow

out, taboo, tabu, prohibited, forbidden, proscribed

adj. excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject"

Fuzzynyms (96)

dust, remove the dust from

v. remove the dust from; "dust the cabinets"

dust

v. rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape; "The artist dusted the charcoal drawing down to a faint image"

get rid of, abolish

v. do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"

eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, decimate, carry off, wipe out

v. terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"

dry, dry out, make dry

v. remove the moisture from and make dry; "dry clothes"; "dry hair"

dry, dry out, become dry

v. become dry or drier; "The laundry dries in the sun"

wash, launder

v. cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!"

efface, erase, wipe off, score out, rub out

v. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"

clear, delete, erase

v. wipe out magnetically recorded information

end, terminate, bring to an end, cause to end

v. bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"

eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, decimate, carry off, wipe out

v. terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"

demolish, destroy

v. defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the visitors"

destroy

v. put to death; "The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid"

dry, dry out, make dry

v. remove the moisture from and make dry; "dry clothes"; "dry hair"

cure, heal

v. provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"

cure

v. prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay"

drain, empty of liquid, drain the liquid from

v. empty of liquid; drain the liquid from; "We drained the oil tank"

drain, enfeeble, debilitate, make feeble

v. make weak; "Life in the camp drained him"

preserve

v. prevent (food) from rotting; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh"

salt, preserve with salt

v. preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"

cancel, delete

v. remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

cut, edit, edit out

v. prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"

exterminate, kill en masse, kill off

v. kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"

waste, knock off, liquidate, do in

v. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"

smear, smudge, blur, smutch

v. make a smudge on; soil by smudging

hide, obliterate, obscure, blot out

v. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"

streak

v. move quickly in a straight line; "The plane streaked across the sky"

defunct

adj. having ceased to exist or live; "the will of a defunct aunt"; "a defunct Indian tribe"

obsolete

adj. no longer in use; "obsolete words"

wildcat, unauthorized

adj. without official authorization; "an unauthorized strike"; "wildcat work stoppage"

banned, prohibited

adj. forbidden by law

illegitimate, outlaw, unlawful, illicit, outlawed

adj. contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"

wrong, incorrect

adj. not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth; "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"

unutterable, ineffable, unspeakable, unnameable

adj. too sacred to be uttered; "the ineffable name of the Deity"

Synonyms (95)

pass, run, guide

v. guide or pass over something; "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers"

efface, erase, wipe off, score out, rub out

v. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"

run through, exhaust, wipe out, consume, deplete, run out of, use up, eat into

v. use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

antique, old-fashioned, out-of-date, outmoded, demode, old-hat, passe, passee, old hat, out of fashion, out of style, démodé

adj. out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas"

dated

adj. marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past

dowdy, frumpy, frumpish

adj. primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game"

prehistoric

adj. no longer fashionable; "my mother has these prehistoric ideas about proper clothes"

outward, departing, outbound, outward-bound

adj. that is going out or leaving; "the departing train"; "an outward journey"; "outward-bound ships"

effluent, outflowing

adj. that is flowing outward

past, retiring, preceding

adj. of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board"

attempted

adj. tried unsuccessfully; "attempted murder"

defeated, frustrated, disappointed, foiled, thwarted

adj. disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted"

undone, ruined, done for, sunk, washed-up

adj. doomed to extinction

down-and-out

adj. lacking resources (or any prospect of resources)

empty-handed, unrewarded

adj. having acquired or gained nothing; "the returned from the negotiations empty-handed"

failing, failed

adj. unable to meet financial obligations; "a failing business venture"

hitless, scoreless, goalless

adj. having no points scores; "a scoreless inning"

self-defeating

adj. acting to defeat its own purpose; "it is self-defeating...to ignore the progress of events"

unfulfilled, unrealized

adj. of persons; marked by failure to realize full potentialities; "unfulfilled and uneasy men"; "unrealized dreams and ambitions"

unplaced

adj. not one of the first three in a race or competition

winless

adj. having no wins; "the team had a very disappointing winless season"

outer

adj. being on or toward the outside of the body; "the outer ear"

outside

adj. originating or belonging beyond some bounds:"the outside world"; "outside interests"; "an outside job"

outermost, outmost

adj. situated at the farthest possible point from a center

outside

adj. on or toward an outer edge; "an outer lane"; "the outside lane"

satellite

adj. surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power; "a city and its satellite communities"

disliked

adj. regarded with aversion; "he was intensely disliked"

less-traveled

adj. not visited by many travelers; "the tourist's desire to visit less-traveled countries"

disconnected

adj. not plugged in or connected to a power source; "the iron is disconnected"

drained, run-down

adj. drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"

invalid, irrelevant

adj. no longer having force or currency: "a dead issue"; "a dead law"

out of play

adj. (of a ball) "a ball that is out of play is dead"

lacking, wanting, nonexistent, missing

adj. not existing; "innovation has been sadly lacking"; "character development is missing from the book"

truant, awol

adj. absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week"

comatose

adj. in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness; unable to respond to external stimuli; "a comatose patient"

senseless, insensible

adj. unresponsive to stimulation; "he lay insensible where he had fallen"; "drugged and senseless"

nonconscious

adj. concerning mental functioning that is not represented in consciousness; "nonconscious psychic processes"

out cold

adj. (unconscious)

semicomatose

adj. in a state of partial coma

subconscious

adj. just below the level of consciousness

unmentionable

adj. unsuitable or forbidden as a topic of conversation; "unmentionable words"

untouchable

adj. forbidden to the touch; "in most museums such articles are untouchable"

Antonyms (8)

adj. holding office; "the in party"

internal

adj. happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface; "internal organs"; "internal mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering"

inside

adj. relating to or being on the side closer to the center or within a defined space; "he reached into his inside jacket pocket"; "inside out"; "an inside pitch is between home plate and the batter"

safe

adj. having reached a base without being put out; "the runner was called safe when the baseman dropped the ball"

present

adj. spatial sense; being or existing in a specified place; "the murderer is present in this room"; "present at the wedding"; "present at the creation"

permissible

adj. that may be permitted especially as according to rule; "permissible behavior in school"; "a permissible tax deduction"

in, inside an enclosed space

adv. to or toward the inside of; "come in"; "smash in the door"

wipe out

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