Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb come_out
11 senses of come out
Sense 1
come on, come out, turn up, surface, show up -- (appear or become visible; make a showing; "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again")
=> appear -- (come into sight or view; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon")
Sense 2
appear, come out -- (be issued or published; "Did your latest book appear yet?"; "The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet")
=> happen, materialize, materialise -- (come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized")
Sense 3
issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress -- (come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves")
Sense 4
turn out, come out -- (result or end; "How will the game turn out?")
=> end, stop, finish, terminate, cease -- (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo")
Sense 5
come out, fall out -- (come off; "His hair and teeth fell out")
=> issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress -- (come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves")
Sense 6
place, come in, come out -- (take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal; "Jerry came in third in the Marathon")
=> rank -- (take or have a position relative to others; "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World")
Sense 7
come to the fore, step forward, come forward, step up, step to the fore, come out -- (make oneself visible; take action; "Young people should step to the fore and help their peers")
=> act, move -- (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action); "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel")
Sense 8
start, protrude, pop, pop out, bulge, bulge out, bug out, come out -- (bulge outward; "His eyes popped")
=> change shape, change form, deform -- (assume a different shape or form)
Sense 9
come out of the closet, out, come out -- (to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality; "This actor outed last year")
=> unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out -- (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case")
Sense 10
out, come out -- (be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The truth will out")
Sense 11
erupt, come out, break through, push through -- (break out; "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted")
=> appear -- (come into sight or view; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon")