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tars out

tars out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tar out.

Meaning of tar out

Verb

tar out (third-person singular simple present tars out, present participle tarring out, simple past and past participle tarred out)

  1. (dated, slang, transitive) To punish; to pay back or take revenge on.
    • We had him stopped the year before, the time we whupped him at Stone's River at the end of Sixty-two: we tarred him out so bad he had to wait.1937, Thomas Wolfe, Chickamauga

Questions about tars out

What is tars out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tars out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tar out.

Words near tars out in the dictionary

  1. tarryings
  2. Tarrys
  3. Tarrytown
  4. tars
  5. tars and feathers
  6. tars out
  7. tars with the same brush
  8. tars with the same stick
  9. tars-
  10. tars-and-feathers
  11. tarsal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tars out (page history and authors); tar 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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