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Exit
| Exit Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Exit?
[n] the act of going out
[n] an opening that permits escape or release; "he blocked the way out"; "the canyon had only one issue"
[n] euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing"
[v] pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"
[v] lose the lead, in card games
[v] move out of or depart from; "leave the room"; "the fugitive has left the country"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Exit: decease |
departure |
die |
expiration |
expire |
get out |
go |
go out |
going |
issue |
leave |
loss |
outlet |
pass |
pass away |
passing |
perish |
release |
way out
Related Terms | Find terms related to Exit: abandonment |
absence without leave |
absquatulation |
access |
adit |
aisle |
alley |
ambulatory |
annihilation |
aperture |
arcade |
artery |
avenue |
AWOL |
bane |
be consumed |
be getting along |
be gone |
beat a retreat |
beat it |
biological death |
blowhole |
bolt |
bow out |
break out |
break through |
buzz off |
cease |
cease to be |
cease to exist |
cessation of life |
channel |
chute |
clinical death |
cloister |
colonnade |
come away |
come forth |
come out |
communication |
conduit |
connection |
corridor |
course |
covered way |
crossing the bar |
curtains |
cut out |
death |
death knell |
debouch |
debt of nature |
decampment |
decease |
defile |
dematerialize |
demise |
depart |
departure |
desertion |
die |
die away |
die out |
disappear |
disappearance |
disappearing act |
dispel |
disperse |
dissipate |
dissolution |
dissolve |
ditch |
do a fade-out |
doom |
door |
duck out |
duct |
dwindle |
dying |
ebb of life |
egress |
egression |
elopement |
emerge |
emunctory |
end |
end of life |
ending |
entrance |
erode |
erupt |
escape |
estuary |
eternal rest |
evacuation |
evanesce |
evaporate |
exhaust |
exodus |
expiration |
extinction |
extinguishment |
extraction |
fade |
fade away |
fade out |
ferry |
final summons |
find vent |
finger of death |
flee |
flight |
floodgate |
flume |
fly |
ford |
forthcoming |
French leave |
fugitation |
gallery |
gang along |
gate |
get along |
get away |
get off |
get on |
get out |
get under way |
getaway |
go |
go along |
go away |
go off |
go on |
go on furlough |
go on leave |
go out |
going |
going off |
going out |
grave |
hand of death |
hasty retreat |
hegira |
hide |
ingress |
inlet |
interchange |
intersection |
issue |
issue forth |
jaws of death |
junction |
knell |
lane |
last debt |
last muster |
last rest |
last roundup |
last sleep |
leak out |
leave |
leave no trace |
leave the scene |
leave-taking |
leaving |
leaving life |
loophole |
loss of life |
make an exit |
making an end |
march off |
march out |
melt |
melt away |
mosey |
move |
move away |
move off |
move out |
ooze out |
opening |
out |
outcome |
outcoming |
outfall |
outgate |
outgo |
outgoing |
outlet |
overpass |
parting |
pass |
pass away |
pass out |
passage |
passageway |
passing |
passing away |
passing over |
perish |
perishing |
pore |
port |
portico |
pull out |
quick exit |
quietus |
quit |
railroad tunnel |
release |
removal |
rest |
retire |
retire from sight |
retirement |
retreat |
reward |
run |
run out |
running away |
sally port |
sashay |
sashay off |
scramming |
sentence of death |
shades of death |
shadow of death |
sink |
sink away |
skedaddle |
skedaddling |
sleep |
slip away |
slip off |
slip out |
sluice |
sneak out |
somatic death |
spiracle |
spout |
stagger along |
suffer an eclipse |
summons of death |
take a walk |
take flight |
take leave |
take off |
take wing |
tap |
toddle along |
traject |
trajet |
trench |
trough |
troughing |
troughway |
tunnel |
underpass |
up and go |
vanish |
vanish from sight |
vent |
ventage |
venthole |
vomitory |
walk out |
walkout |
waste |
waste away |
way |
way out |
wear away |
weir |
wing it |
withdraw |
withdrawal
See Also | asphyxiate |
buy it |
buy the farm |
change state |
choke |
conk |
croak |
death |
decease |
depart |
departure |
die back |
die down |
die off |
die out |
drop dead |
drown |
eject |
fall |
famish |
file out |
get off |
go |
go away |
going |
going away |
hop out |
kick the bucket |
leaving |
log off |
log out |
move |
opening |
outfall |
pip out |
play |
pop off |
pop out |
predecease |
snuff it |
starve |
step out |
succumb |
suffocate |
turn |
undock |
yield
Exit In Webster's Dictionary
\Ex"it\ [L., 3d pers. sing. pres. of exire to go out. See
{Exeunt}, {Issue}.]
He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit
Macbeth.
Note: The Latin words exit (he or she goes out), and exeunt (
they go out), are used in dramatic writings to indicate
the time of withdrawal from the stage of one or more of
the actors.
\Ex"it\, n. [See 1st {Exit}.]
1. The departure of a player from the stage, when he has
performed his part.
They have their exits and their entrances. --Shak.
2. Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or
of life; death; as, to make one's exit.
Sighs for his exit, vulgarly called death. --Cowper.
3. A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way
out.
Forcing he water forth thought its ordinary exists.
--Woodward.
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