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rode out

rode out is the simple past 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 rode out

What is rode out the simple past of?
Rode out is the simple past of ride out.

Words near rode out in the dictionary

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

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