get out
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Definition
Verb (intransitive):
- To leave or exit a place, vehicle, or situation: To physically move from an interior or confined space to the outside.
- To become known or revealed: For information, especially secret or surprising news, to be disclosed or to spread.
- To escape or avoid an unpleasant situation or consequence: To extricate oneself from a difficult obligation, responsibility, or danger.
Verb (transitive):
- To remove something or someone from a place: To take or bring something out from a container, enclosed space, or situation.
- To utter or express something with difficulty: To succeed in saying something, especially when it is hard to do so.
- To publish or produce something: To make something available to the public.
Usage and Examples
Intransitive Verb (To leave):
- We need to get out before the building collapses.
- He got out of the car and walked into the house.
Intransitive Verb (To become known):
- If this secret gets out, there will be trouble.
- The news of their engagement got out very quickly.
Intransitive Verb (To escape a situation):
- She wanted to get out of her contract.
- He's trying to get out from under his debts.
Transitive Verb (To remove something):
- Can you get the book out of my bag?
- They managed to get all the passengers out safely.
Transitive Verb (To utter with difficulty):
- He was so shocked he could barely get out a word.
- She finally got out an apology.
Advanced Usage and Nuances
- "Get out of [doing something]": To avoid a duty or responsibility.
- He always tries to get out of washing the dishes.
- "Get out while the getting's good": To leave a situation while it is still possible or advantageous to do so.
- The market is unstable; you should get out while the getting's good.
- As an exclamation ("Get out!"): An informal expression of disbelief or surprise.
- "I won the lottery!" — "Get out! You're kidding!"
Variants and Related Words
- Getaway (n): An escape or quick departure, often after a crime.
- The thieves made their getaway in a stolen car.
- Outing (n): A short trip taken for pleasure.
- We went on a family outing to the zoo.
- Out (adj/adv): Not at home or in one's usual place; revealed; extinguished.
- The secret is out. / The lights are out.
Synonyms
- Exit, leave, depart: For leaving a place.
- Escape, evade, avoid: For avoiding a situation.
- Extract, remove, withdraw: For taking something out.
- Disclose, reveal, leak: For information becoming known.
Phrasal Verbs and Related Constructions
- Get out of hand: To become uncontrollable.
- The party got out of hand and the police were called.
- Get out of the way: To move aside to avoid obstruction.
- Get out of the way! That box is falling!
- Get the word out: To spread information or news publicly.
- We need to get the word out about the charity event.
Idioms and Fixed Phrases
- Get out of bed on the wrong side: To be in a bad mood from the start of the day.
- Don't mind him; he got out of bed on the wrong side this morning.
- Get out of one's depth: To be involved in a situation that is too difficult to handle.
- I felt I was getting out of my depth in the advanced physics class.
- Get blood out of a stone: To attempt something nearly impossible (like getting help from an unwilling person).
- Getting him to apologize is like trying to get blood out of a stone.
Verb
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- She gets away with murder!
- I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities
- be released or become known; of news
- News of her death broke in the morning
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- draw a weapon
- pull out a gun
- The mugger pulled a knife on his victim
- express with difficulty
- I managed to get out a few words
- move out or away
- The troops pulled out after the cease-fire
- take out of a container or enclosed space
- Get out your best dress--we are going to a party!
- move out of or depart from
- leave the room
- the fugitive has left the country