coming out

Verb

come out (third-person singular simple present comes out, present participle coming out, simple past came out, past participle come out)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, out.
   • The mouse came out of the hole.
2. (intransitive) To be discovered; to be revealed.
   • It finally came out that he had been lying all the time.
3. (intransitive) To be published or released; to be issued; to be broadcast for the first time.
   • My new book comes out next week.
4. (dated, historical) To make a formal debut in society.
   • My daughter comes out in the spring.
5. (copulative) To end up or result; to turn out to be.
   • There were a lot of problems at the start, but it all came out well in the end.
6. To walk onto the field at the beginning of an innings.

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