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rides out

rides out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ride out.

Meaning of ride out

Verb

ride out (third-person singular simple present rides out, present participle riding out, simple past rode out, past participle ridden out)

  1. (transitive) To survive in a storm (about a ship) and keep afloat.
  2. (broadly, idiomatic, transitive) To tackle a difficult situation and survive; to survive through; to weather.
    • In deep underground basing, missiles are buried in tunnels in mountainsides where they are able to ride out a nuclear attack. Following the attack the missiles dig themselves out of the tunnels to the surface and launch themselves.1989, Barbara Goss Levi, Mark Sakitt, The Future of Land Based-Strategic Missiles, page 174
  3. (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To go out in a vehicle with one's friends or crew.
    • Let's ride out and see what we can get into.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ride, out.

Questions about rides out

What is rides out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rides out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ride out.

Words near rides out in the dictionary

  1. rides on a rail
  2. rides on the back of
  3. rides one's bumper
  4. rides one's luck
  5. rides or dies
  6. rides out
  7. rides out the storm
  8. rides over
  9. rides pillion
  10. rides rantipole
  11. rides roughshod over

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