'Exit' definitions:
Definition of 'exit'
(from WordNet)
noun
An opening that permits escape or release; "he blocked the way out"; "the canyon had only one issue" [syn: exit, issue, outlet, way out]
noun
Euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" [syn: passing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release]
noun
The act of going out
verb
Move out of or depart from; "leave the room"; "the fugitive has left the country" [syn: exit, go out, get out, leave] [ant: come in, enter, get in, get into, go in, go into, move into]
verb
Lose the lead
verb
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be born]
Definition of 'Exit'
From: GCIDE
- Exit \Ex"it\, n. [See 1st Exit.]
- 1. The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part. [1913 Webster]
- They have their exits and their entrances. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's exit. [1913 Webster]
- Sighs for his exit, vulgarly called death. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out. [1913 Webster]
- Forcing the water forth through its ordinary exits. --Woodward. Exitial
Definition of 'Exit'
From: GCIDE
- Exit \Ex"it\ [L., 3d pers. sing. pres. of exire to go out. See Exeunt, Issue.] He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The Latin words exit (he or she goes out), and exeunt ( they go out), are used in dramatic writings to indicate the time of withdrawal from the stage of one or more of the actors. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'exit'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandonment,
- absence without leave,
- absquatulation,
- access,
- adit,
- aisle,
- alley,
- ambulatory,
- annihilation,
- aperture,
- arcade,
- artery,
- avenue,
- AWOL,
- bane,
- be consumed,
- be getting along,
- be gone,
- beat a retreat,
- beat it,
- biological death,
- blowhole,
- bolt,
- bow out,
- break out,
- break through,
- buzz off,
- cease,
- cease to be,
- cease to exist,
- cessation of life,
- channel,
- chute,
- clinical death,
- cloister,
- colonnade,
- come away,
- come forth,
- come out,
- communication,
- conduit,
- connection,
- corridor,
- course,
- covered way,
- crossing the bar,
- curtains,
- cut out,
- death,
- death knell,
- debouch,
- debt of nature,
- decampment,
- decease,
- defile,
- dematerialize,
- demise,
- depart,
- departure,
- desertion,
- die,
- die away,
- die out,
- disappear,
- disappearance,
- disappearing act,
- dispel,
- disperse,
- dissipate,
- dissolution,
- dissolve,
- ditch,
- do a fade-out,
- doom,
- door,
- duck out,
- duct,
- dwindle,
- dying,
- ebb of life,
- egress,
- egression,
- elopement,
- emerge,
- emunctory,
- end,
- end of life,
- ending,
- entrance,
- erode,
- erupt,
- escape,
- estuary,
- eternal rest,
- evacuation,
- evanesce,
- evaporate,
- exhaust,
- exodus,
- expiration,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- extraction,
- fade,
- fade away,
- fade out,
- ferry,
- final summons,
- find vent,
- finger of death,
- flee,
- flight,
- floodgate,
- flume,
- fly,
- ford,
- forthcoming,
- French leave,
- fugitation,
- gallery,
- gang along,
- gate,
- get along,
- get away,
- get off,
- get on,
- get out,
- get under way,
- getaway,
- go,
- go along,
- go away,
- go off,
- go on,
- go on furlough,
- go on leave,
- go out,
- going,
- going off,
- going out,
- grave,
- hand of death,
- hasty retreat,
- hegira,
- hide,
- ingress,
- inlet,
- interchange,
- intersection,
- issue,
- issue forth,
- jaws of death,
- junction,
- knell,
- lane,
- last debt,
- last muster,
- last rest,
- last roundup,
- last sleep,
- leak out,
- leave,
- leave no trace,
- leave the scene,
- leave-taking,
- leaving,
- leaving life,
- loophole,
- loss of life,
- make an exit,
- making an end,
- march off,
- march out,
- melt,
- melt away,
- mosey,
- move,
- move away,
- move off,
- move out,
- ooze out,
- opening,
- out,
- outcome,
- outcoming,
- outfall,
- outgate,
- outgo,
- outgoing,
- outlet,
- overpass,
- parting,
- pass,
- pass away,
- pass out,
- passage,
- passageway,
- passing,
- passing away,
- passing over,
- perish,
- perishing,
- pore,
- port,
- portico,
- pull out,
- quick exit,
- quietus,
- quit,
- railroad tunnel,
- release,
- removal,
- rest,
- retire,
- retire from sight,
- retirement,
- retreat,
- reward,
- run,
- run out,
- running away,
- sally port,
- sashay,
- sashay off,
- scramming,
- sentence of death,
- shades of death,
- shadow of death,
- sink,
- sink away,
- skedaddle,
- skedaddling,
- sleep,
- slip away,
- slip off,
- slip out,
- sluice,
- sneak out,
- somatic death,
- spiracle,
- spout,
- stagger along,
- suffer an eclipse,
- summons of death,
- take a walk,
- take flight,
- take leave,
- take off,
- take wing,
- tap,
- toddle along,
- traject,
- trajet,
- trench,
- trough,
- troughing,
- troughway,
- tunnel,
- underpass,
- up and go,
- vanish,
- vanish from sight,
- vent,
- ventage,
- venthole,
- vomitory,
- walk out,
- walkout,
- waste,
- waste away,
- way,
- way out,
- wear away,
- weir,
- wing it,
- withdraw,
- withdrawal