Thesaurus: exit
He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.
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- He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.
- n. The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part.
- n. Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's exit.
- n. A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out.
- n. an opening that permits escape or release
- n. euphemistic expressions for death
- n. the act of going out
- v. move out of or depart from
- v. lose the lead
- v. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- 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. 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.
- v:41/n:59 n. an opening that permits escape or release n. the act of going out v. move out of or depart from v. lose the lead