exit

Plural: exits

Noun

• an opening that permits escape or release
• euphemistic expressions for death
• the act of going out
• An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
• An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
• The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
• A way out.
• An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.
• A way out.
• A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).
• The act of departing from life; death.

Verb

Verb Forms: exited, exiting, exits

• To go out of a place.
• move out of or depart from
• lose the lead
• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
• To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
• To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
• To leave a scene or depart from a stage.
• To depart from life; to die.
• To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
• To depart from or leave (a place or situation).
• To depart from or leave (a place or situation).
• To alight or disembark from a vehicle.
• To give up the lead.
• Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.

Examples

• emergency exit    fire exit
• He chose to exit the game gracefully after his opponent played a triple-triple word.
• He made his exit at the opportune time.
• He was looking for the exit and got lost.
• She stood at the exit of the house looking back and waving at those inside.
• the untimely exit of a respected politician

Synonyms

buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, departure, die, drop dead, expiration, expire, get out, give-up the ghost, go, go out, going, issue, kick the bucket, leave, loss, outlet, pass, pass away, passing, perish, pop off, release, snuff it, way out, (the) bane, (the) end, assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, buy it, cark it, cash in, celestial transfer, check out, close one's eyes for the last time, code, conk out, crash, cross over, cross rainbow bridge, cross the Great Divide, cross the Styx, death, decompose, decomposition, defunction, dematerialization, dematerialize, demise, depart, dirt nap, disincarnate, doom, downfall, draw one's last breath, drop off the hooks, egress, exeat, exit, fall, fatality, flatline, forfare, get to be like the one, give one's all, give up the ghost, go for a burton, go gentle into that good night, go over to the majority, go the way of all flesh, go the way of the dinosaurs, go the way of the dodo, go the way of the dodo bird, go to glory, go to one's reward, go west, hand in one's checks, hand in one's dinner pail, hop the twig, join the choir invisible, keel over, kick off, knock off, liquidate, liquidation, lose my life for Jesus Christ, lose the number of one's mess, meet one's doom, meet one's end, meet one's maker, mortality, outgang, outgoing, outway, pass in one's checks, pass in one's marble, pass on, pass over, pass the river, pay nature's debt, pay the debt of nature, peg out, pop one's clogs, quietus, repose, shuffle off this mortal coil, sink, sleep of the just, sleep with one's fathers, slip away, succumb, sunset, take a dirt nap, the big sleep, turn up one's toes, yield up the ghost

Antonyms

be born, enter, arrive, come, entrance, entranceway, entry, entryway, ingang, ingoing, ingress, portal

Related Words

exeunt, exits, issue