writing out

Verb

write out (third-person singular simple present writes out, present participle writing out, simple past wrote out, past participle written out)

1. (transitive) To write at full length or in expanded form.
   • Don't use abbreviations; write out words!
2. (transitive) To write or fill out (a ticket or citation).
3. (broadly, transitive) To exclude from a narrative or history.
   • The temperance movement was driven by women, but we let ourselves be written out of that because it gave us a bad name.2018 April 11, Zoe Williams, “What's the best way to get written out of history? Be a middle-aged woman”, in The Guardian
4. (broadly, transitive) To remove (a character in a fictional series such as a TV show) by writing the script so as to explain their disappearance (through death, moving away, etc.).
   • “Jussie Smollett continues to be a consummate professional on set and as we have previously stated, he is not being written out of the show,” 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment said in a joint statement released on Wednesday.2019 February 20, Sopan Deb, “Fox Stands by Jussie Smollett: ‘He Is Not Being Written Out of the Show’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
5. (intransitive) To exhaust one's mental capacity by too much writing.