intransitive verb
1.
a. : to go forth, abroad, or out of doors
decided to go out to the stadium for the weigh-in and buy my ticket there — A.J.Liebling
specifically : to leave one's house
induced me to go out for the evening — A.N.Whitehead
b.
(1) : to take the field as a soldier
there are other men fitter to go out than I — Shakespeare
(2) : to participate as a principal in a duel
c. : to travel as or as if a colonist or immigrant
a lad who goes out to the Canadian Rockies — British Book News
d. : to work away from home
is a workman's wife and has herself gone out as a char when things were difficult — Saturday Review
e. : to play the first nine holes of an 18-hole golf match
went out in 38 and finished with 35 for a score of 73
2.
a. : to come to an end
March came in like a lion and went out like a lamb
b. : to become extinguished
after a moment the hall light went out and she could hear … footsteps — Margaret A. Barnes
c. : to give up office : resign
an absolute certainty that the government will go out — Rachel M. Praed
d. : to become obsolete or unfashionable
the sort of caricature that went out with twenty-three skiddoo — Charles Lee
e. of the tide : ebb , recede
f. : to cease to operate or function : fail
the men were ordered to jump when two of the plane's four engines went out — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union
g. : to end one's turn at bat (as in baseball) : make an out
the batter went out on a fly to right field
h.
(1) : to play the last card of one's hand
(2) : to reach or exceed the total number of points required for game in cards
i. : die
the patient caught pneumonia and went out shortly before midnight
3. : to take part in social activities
the high-school set went out constantly during the holidays
4. : to take a B.A. degree at Cambridge University
had gone out in honors, having been a second-class man — Anthony Trollope
5. : to become emotionally drawn or impelled : issue forth : flow out
his sympathy went out to whoever suffered … from the injustice of society — V.L.Parrington
6. : to go on strike
ready to go out also were 6000 textile workers — Time
7. : to become spread abroad : come to be issued or published
an interoffice memo goes out in sixteen copies — J.M.Barzun
8. : to give way to pressure : break , collapse
a dam that might go out and drown many thousand people — F.D.Roosevelt
9. : to become a candidate : try out
went out for the … team as a sixteen-year-old in his junior year — Stanley Frank