come out meaning and definition

COME OUT verb

Definition of come out (verb)

1. appear or become visible; make a showing
   • "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again"
   • synonyms: come on, show up, surface, turn up
2. be issued or published
   • "Did your latest book appear yet?"; "The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet"
   • synonyms: appear
3. come out of
   • "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves"
   • synonyms: come forth, egress, emerge, go forth, issue
4. result or end
   • "How will the game turn out?"
   • synonyms: turn out
5. come off
   • "His hair and teeth fell out"
   • synonyms: fall out
6. take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
   • "Jerry came in third in the Marathon"
   • synonyms: come in, place
7. make oneself visible; take action
   • "Young people should step to the fore and help their peers"
   • synonyms: come forward, come to the fore, step forward, step to the fore, step up
8. bulge outward
   • "His eyes popped"
   • synonyms: bug out, bulge, bulge out, pop, pop out, protrude, start
9. to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
   • "This actor outed last year"
   • synonyms: come out of the closet, out
10. be made known; be disclosed or revealed
    • "The truth will out"
    • synonyms: out
11. break out
    • "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted"
    • synonyms: break through, erupt, push through