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Exit   /ˈɛgzɪt/  /ˈɛksət/   Listen
Exit

noun
1.
An opening that permits escape or release.  Synonyms: issue, outlet, way out.  "The canyon had only one issue"
2.
Euphemistic expressions for death.  Synonyms: departure, expiration, going, loss, passing, release.
3.
The act of going out.
verb
1.
Move out of or depart from.  Synonyms: get out, go out, leave.  "The fugitive has left the country"
2.
Lose the lead.
3.
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.  Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it.  "The children perished in the fire" , "The patient went peacefully" , "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"



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"Exit" Quotes from Famous Books



... the main body would, somehow or other, escape. We had so often toiled and taken nothing, that this sudden miraculous draught quite flabbergasted us. And what must have been the feelings of the poor Boers? They tried Naawpoort Nek: no exit. They knocked at the Golden Gate: it was locked. Then back they turned and met Hunter sauntering up the valley, and we gave them the time of day with our cow-guns, and told them how glad we were to see them. "Fancy meeting you, of all people in the world!" And so they chucked it. ...
— With Rimington • L. March Phillipps

... At his exit, doors closed softly on every floor, because the neighbours had listened to the tete-a-tete with intense interest. Even people in the next house had been able to hear ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various

... after the ensample of Plutarch, and exhausting all the antiquarianism, all the memoirism, and all the varia-lectionism of the subject. The different tales should be of different countries and ages of the world, to insure variety, and give an easier exit to ennui. As thus: Solon's "Know thyself" might be fitted to an Eastern favourite raised suddenly to power, or a poor and honest Glasgow weaver all upon a day served as heir to a Scotch barony, when he forthwith ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper

... it all fixed to rid the regiment of that kid sergeant," the brute in uniform exulted to himself. "Exit ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants - or, Handling Their First Real Commands • H. Irving Hancock

... to the Navy, dear, to form Cosmo, if it can; and as the sister is only a baby, time enough to form her when she can exit from ...
— Alice Sit-By-The-Fire • J. M. Barrie


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