[syn: erupt, come out, break through, push through]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
come out
v 1: appear or become visible; make a showing; "She turned up at
the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface
again" [syn: come on, come out, turn up, surface,
show up]
2: be issued or published; "Did your latest book appear yet?";
"The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet" [syn:
appear, come out]
3: come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The
words seemed to come out by themselves" [syn: issue,
emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress]
4: result or end; "How will the game turn out?" [syn: turn
out, come out]
5: come off; "His hair and teeth fell out" [syn: come out,
fall out]
6: take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal;
"Jerry came in third in the Marathon" [syn: place, come
in, come out]
7: make oneself visible; take action; "Young people should step
to the fore and help their peers" [syn: come to the fore,
step forward, come forward, step up, step to the
fore, come out]
8: bulge outward; "His eyes popped" [syn: start, protrude,
pop, pop out, bulge, bulge out, bug out, come
out]
9: to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality; "This actor
outed last year" [syn: come out of the closet, out, come
out]
10: be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The truth will
out" [syn: out, come out]
11: break out; "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted" [syn:
erupt, come out, break through, push through]