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exit

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ex=it

CIDE DICTIONARY

exit,  [L., 3d pers. sing. pres. of exire to go out. See Exeunt, Issue.].
     He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.  [1913 Webster]
    " 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."  [1913 Webster]
exitn. [See 1st Exit.].
  •  The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part.  [1913 Webster]
    "They have their exits and their entrances."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's exit.  [1913 Webster]
    "Sighs for his exit, vulgarly called death."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out.  [1913 Webster]
    "Forcing the water forth through its ordinary exits."

OXFORD DICTIONARY

exit, n. & v.
--n.
1 a passage or door by which to leave a room, building, etc.
2 a the act of going out. b the right to go out.
3 a place where vehicles can leave a motorway or major road.
4 the departure of an actor from the stage.
5 death.
--v.intr. (exited, exiting)
1 go out of a room, building, etc.
2 (as a stage direction) (an actor) leaves the stage (exit Macbeth).
3 die.

Idiom
exit permit (or visa etc.) authorization to leave a particular country.
Etymology
L, 3rd sing. pres. of exire go out (as EX-(1), ire go): cf. L exitus going out

THESAURUS

exit

AWOL, French leave, abandonment, absence without leave, absquatulation, access, adit, aisle, alley, ambulatory, annihilation, aperture, arcade, artery, avenue, bane, be consumed, be getting along, be gone, beat a retreat, beat it, biological death, blowhole, bolt, bow out, break out, break through, buzz off, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, cessation of life, channel, chute, clinical death, cloister, colonnade, come away, come forth, come out, communication, conduit, connection, corridor, course, covered way, crossing the bar, curtains, cut out, death, death knell, debouch, debt of nature, decampment, decease, defile, dematerialize, demise, depart, departure, desertion, die, die away, die out, disappear, disappearance, disappearing act, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolution, dissolve, ditch, do a fade-out, doom, door, duck out, duct, dwindle, dying, ebb of life, egress, egression, elopement, emerge, emunctory, end, end of life, ending, entrance, erode, erupt, escape, estuary, eternal rest, evacuation, evanesce, evaporate, exhaust, exodus, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, extraction, fade, fade away, fade out, ferry, final summons, find vent, finger of death, flee, flight, floodgate, flume, fly, ford, forthcoming, fugitation, gallery, gang along, gate, get along, get away, get off, get on, get out, get under way, getaway, go, go along, go away, go off, go on, go on furlough, go on leave, go out, going, going off, going out, grave, hand of death, hasty retreat, hegira, hide, ingress, inlet, interchange, intersection, issue, issue forth, jaws of death, junction, knell, lane, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leak out, leave, leave no trace, leave the scene, leave-taking, leaving, leaving life, loophole, loss of life, make an exit, making an end, march off, march out, melt, melt away, mosey, move, move away, move off, move out, ooze out, opening, out, outcome, outcoming, outfall, outgate, outgo, outgoing, outlet, overpass, parting, pass, pass away, pass out, passage, passageway, passing, passing away, passing over, perish, perishing, pore, port, portico, pull out, quick exit, quietus, quit, railroad tunnel, release, removal, rest, retire, retire from sight, retirement, retreat, reward, run, run out, running away, sally port, sashay, sashay off, scramming, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, sink, sink away, skedaddle, skedaddling, sleep, slip away, slip off, slip out, sluice, sneak out, somatic death, spiracle, spout, stagger along, suffer an eclipse, summons of death, take a walk, take flight, take leave, take off, take wing, tap, toddle along, traject, trajet, trench, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, underpass, up and go, vanish, vanish from sight, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, walk out, walkout, waste, waste away, way, way out, wear away, weir, wing it, withdraw, withdrawal

ROGET THESAURUS

exit

Departure

N departure, decession, decampment, embarkation, outset, start, removal, exit, exodus, hejira, flight, leave taking, valediction, adieu, farewell, goodbye, auf wiedersehen, sayonara, dosvidanya, ciao, aloha, hasta la vista, stirrup cup, valedictorian, starting point, starting post, point of departure, point of embarkation, place of departure, place of embarkation, port of embarkation, airport, take-off point, taxiing runway, runway, launching pad, spaceport, departing, valedictory, outward bound, whence, hence, thence, with a foot in the stirrup, on the wing, on the move, Int, begone!, farewell!, adieu!, goodbye!, good day!, au revoir!, fare you well!, God bless you!, God speed!, all aboard!, auf wiedersehen!, au plaisir de vous revoir!, bon voyage!, gluckliche Reise!, vive valeque!.

Egress

N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.

Disappearance

N disappearance, evanescence, eclipse, occultation, departure, exit, vanishing point, dissolving views, disappearing, evanescent, missing, lost, lost to sight, lost to view, gone, Int, vanish!, disappear!, avaunt!, get lost!, get out of here.


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