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looks out

looks out is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 looks out

What is looks out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Looks out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of look out.

Words near looks out in the dictionary

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

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