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looked out

looked out is the simple past and past participle of look out.

Meaning of look out

Verb

look out (third-person singular simple present looks out, present participle looking out, simple past and past participle looked out)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger.
    • While you're in the city center, look out for the dodgy street vendors.
    Synonyms:
    take care, watch out
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To find by looking: to hunt out.
    • Morgan pulled a Greek lexicon toward him (he used a Greek-German), to look out a word, instead of asking it of Pemberton.1891, Henry James, The Pupil^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Lesson_of_the_Master,_The_Marriages,_The_Pupil,_Brooksmith,_The_Solution,_Sir_Edmund_Orme_(New_York_%26_London:_Macmillan_%26_Co.,_1892...
  3. To be facing.
    • A spacious room that looks out on the sea.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, out.
    • On the morning of the eighth day, he found himself looking out across the river.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 30, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 159

Questions about looked out

What is looked out the simple past and past participle of?
Looked out is the simple past and past participle of look out.

Words near looked out in the dictionary

  1. looked on the dark side of it
  2. looked on the gloomy side
  3. looked on the positive side
  4. looked one's age
  5. looked one's best
  6. looked out
  7. looked out for number one
  8. looked out for someone
  9. looked over
  10. looked over one's shoulder
  11. looked past

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