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heading out

heading out is the present participle and gerund of head out.

Meaning of head out

Verb

head out (third-person singular simple present heads out, present participle heading out, simple past and past participle headed out)

  1. (intransitive) To leave, depart; to go on ahead.
    • Alright, I'm going to head out

Questions about heading out

What is heading out the present participle and gerund of?
Heading out is the present participle and gerund of head out.

Words near heading out in the dictionary

  1. headinesses
  2. heading
  3. heading for the hills
  4. heading off
  5. heading off at the pass
  6. heading out
  7. heading south
  8. heading up
  9. Headingley
  10. headings
  11. Headington

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heading out (page history and authors); head out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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