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exited

exited is the simple past and past participle of exit.

Meaning of exit

Verb

exit (third-person singular simple present exits, present participle exiting, simple past and past participle exited)

  1. (intransitive) To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
    • Come, good Remus, our men await us. Let the lion roar and roam to-day; he may be of service; to-morrow, perchance we'll chain him. [Exit Stephano right fourth entrance. Soft music. Remus, exiting, looks hard at Romulus. Exit Remus right fourth entrance.]1873, Henry A. Carroll, Romulus: An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts, Memphis, Tenn.: Partee & Matthews, book and job printers, →OCLC, act I, scene iii, page 13
    Antonyms:
    arrive, come, enter, ingress
    1. (intransitive) To leave a scene or depart from a stage.
      • Desdemona exits stage left.
  2. (euphemistic, intransitive, often) To depart from life; to die.
    Synonyms:
    assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be like the the One, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord, bite the big one, bite the biscuit
  3. (ambitransitive) To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
    • Common Lisp provides a facility for exiting from a complex process in a non-local, dynamically scoped manner.1990, Guy L[ewis] Steele Jr. et al., “Control Structure”, in Common Lisp: The Language, 2nd edition, [Bedford, Mass.]: Digital Press, →ISBN, section 7.11 (Dynamic Non-local Exits), page 187
  4. (also, figuratively, transitive) To depart from or leave (a place or situation).
    • At approximately 10:35 a.m. said John Doe exited 110 East 36th Street without the brown paper bag. [...] On four occasions, said John Doe was observed exiting 110 East 36th Street and observed on two occasions entering apartment actually marked 71, but meaning apartment 710 on seventh floor of 150...1970 January 6, Morris Edward Lasker, United States District Judge, United States of America -v- James Armiento and Edward Jernek, Defendants [Opinion of the Court] (no. 36451), [New York, N.Y.]...
    Antonyms:
    enter
    1. (also, figuratively, specifically, transitive) To alight or disembark from a vehicle.
      • When Walsh exited the "Q" train, he walked three blocks underground on the concourse which took him into the World Trade Center, the twin towers which highlight the skyline of lower Manhattan.1994, William F. Roemer, Jr., Mob Power Plays: The Mob Attempts Control of Congress, Casinos and Baseball: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: S.P.I. Books, Shapolsky Publishers, →ISBN, page 159

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What is exited the simple past and past participle of?
Exited is the simple past and past participle of exit.

Words near exited in the dictionary

  1. exit wound
  2. exit wounds
  3. exitance
  4. exitances
  5. exite
  6. exited
  7. exited stage left
  8. exiter
  9. exiters
  10. exites
  11. exitial

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