Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to exit
Participle: exited
Gerund: exiting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | exit |
| you | exit |
| he;she;it | exits |
| we | exit |
| you | exit |
| they | exit |
Perfect
| I | have exited |
| you | have exited |
| he;she;it | has exited |
| we | have exited |
| you | have exited |
| they | have exited |
Past
| I | exited |
| you | exited |
| he;she;it | exited |
| we | exited |
| you | exited |
| they | exited |
Pluperfect
| I | had exited |
| you | had exited |
| he;she;it | had exited |
| we | had exited |
| you | had exited |
| they | had exited |
Future
| I | will exit |
| you | will exit |
| he;she;it | will exit |
| we | will exit |
| you | will exit |
| they | will exit |
Future Perfect
| I | will have exited |
| you | will have exited |
| he;she;it | will have exited |
| we | will have exited |
| you | will have exited |
| they | will have exited |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | exit |
| you | exit |
| he;she;it | exit |
| we | exit |
| you | exit |
| they | exit |
Perfect
| I | have exited |
| you | have exited |
| he;she;it | have exited |
| we | have exited |
| you | have exited |
| they | have exited |
Imperfect
| I | exited |
| you | exited |
| he;she;it | exited |
| we | exited |
| you | exited |
| they | exited |
Pluperfect
| I | had exited |
| you | had exited |
| he;she;it | had exited |
| we | had exited |
| you | had exited |
| they | had exited |
Conditional
Present
| I | would exit |
| you | would exit |
| he;she;it | would exit |
| we | would exit |
| you | would exit |
| they | would exit |
Perfect
| I | would have exited |
| you | would have exited |
| he;she;it | would have exited |
| we | would have exited |
| you | would have exited |
| they | would have exited |
Imperative
| you | exit |
| we | Let's exit |
| you | exit |
Verbs conjugated like 'exit'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'exit'
edit,
emit,
exist,
amit,
bait,
befit,
besit,
bit,
blit,
Brexit,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to stop living; to become dead
- auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be no more, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, buy it, buy the farm, cark it, cash in, cash in one's chips, check out, conk out, croak, cross the Great Divide, cross the Styx, decease, depart, disincarnate, draw one's last breath, expire, flatline, forfare, give one's all, give up the ghost, go for a burton, go gentle into that good night, go the way of all flesh, go the way of the dinosaurs, go the way of the dodo, go to glory, go to one's reward, hand in one's dinner pail, hop the twig, join the choir invisible, keel over, kick the bucket, knock off, lose one's life, lose the number of one's mess, meet one's doom, meet one's end, meet one's maker, pass, pass away, pass in one's marble, pass on, pass over, pass the river, pay the debt of nature, peg out, perish, pop off, pop one's clogs, shuffle off this mortal coil, sleep with one's fathers, slip away, snuff it, succumb, take a dirt nap, die, turn up one's toes, yield up the ghost
- to depart; to separate from
- beat it, book, bounce, bug off, bugger off, buzz off, cut one's stick, dash, depart, duck out, get away, get out, go, go away, go out, leave, make tracks, move on, namous, part, piss off, pull up stakes, quit, remove, run along, set forth, set off, set out, sling one's hook, split, start, start out, take leave, take off, take one's leave, take wing
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
5. Proto-Italic *eks
6. Latin ex
7. Latin ex-
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti
10. Proto-Italic *ejō
11. Proto-Italic *eō
12. Latin eō
13. Latin exeō
14. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
15. Proto-Italic *-tus
16. Latin -tus
17. Latin exitusder.
18. Middle English exit
19. English exit
20. From Middle English exit, from Latin exitus (“departure, going out; way by which one may go out, egress; (figuratively) conclusion, termination; (figuratively) death; income, revenue”), from exeō (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs). Exeō is derived from ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’) + eō (“to go”) (ultimately from ). The English word is cognate with Italian esito, Portuguese êxito, Spanish éxito. Doublet of ejido and exitus.
21. The verb is derived from the noun.
Verbs referencing "exit"
Indonesian
eksit.
Sample Sentences
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Come, good Remus, our men await us. Let the lion roar and roam to-day; he may be of service; to-morrow, perchance we'll chain him. [Exit Stephano right fourth entrance. Soft music. Remus, exiting, looks hard at Romulus. Exit Remus right fourth entrance.] [1873, Henry A. Carroll, Romulus: An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts, Memphis, Tenn.: Partee & Matthews, book and job printers, →OCLC, act I, scene iii, page 13:]
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Lucy enters at 11 o'clock and runs to her mother after blowing kiss to audience with both hands. They both exit at 11 o'clock, after Appleby's line. Ethel crosses to her victim at 3 o'clock, winks at him and then looks over her shoulder as she crosses to door at 1 o'clock, where she speaks her line and exits. [1971, Henning Nelms, “Note on Curtain Calls”, in Only an Orphan Girl: A Soul-stirring Drama of Human Trials and Tribulations in Four Acts, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, →OCLC, page 59:]
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The sciatic nerve exits via the greater sciatic foramen and may in fact be divided by all or part of the piriformis muscle. The pudendal nerve exits via greater sciatic foramen and enters perineum via the lesser sciatic foramen. [1993, Thomas R. Gest, William E. Burkel, Nicholas A. Waanders, “Gluteal Region and Posterior Thigh”, in Review Questions for Gross Anatomy & Embryology, New York, N.Y.; Carnforth, Lancashire: Parthenon Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 294, column 2:]
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A disinfectant footbath is recommended when exiting from the isolation area. Shoe covers or booties can be placed over shoes prior to entering the isolation ward and disposed of immediately before exiting. [2014, Jennifer Serling, “Disease Transmission, Control, and Prevention”, in Paula Pattengale, Terea Sonsthagen, Tasks for the Veterinary Assistant, 3rd edition, Ames, Iowa: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, task 5.4 (Isolation Ward Rules and Sanitation), page 116:]
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Desdemona exits stage left.
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Common Lisp provides a facility for exiting from a complex process in a non-local, dynamically scoped manner. [1990, Guy L[ewis] Steele Jr. et al., “Control Structure”, in Common Lisp: The Language, 2nd edition, [Bedford, Mass.]: Digital Press, →ISBN, section 7.11 (Dynamic Non-local Exits), page 187:]
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Every ZAF program needs to call a routine like this to exit the application. Just put it in your library and be done with it. [1995, Roland Hughes, “Tricks You Should Already Have”, in Zinc It!: Interfacing Third Party Libraries with Crossplatform GUI’s, Evanston, Ill.: John Gordon Burke Publisher, →ISBN, section 3.5 (exit_program() Function), page 3-6:]
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At approximately 10:35 a.m. said John Doe exited 110 East 36th Street without the brown paper bag. [...] On four occasions, said John Doe was observed exiting 110 East 36th Street and observed on two occasions entering apartment actually marked 71, but meaning apartment 710 on seventh floor of 150 East 35th Street. [1970 January 6, Morris Edward Lasker, United States District Judge, United States of America -v- James Armiento and Edward Jernek, Defendants [Opinion of the Court] (no. 36451), [New York, N.Y.]: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; reprinted in Edward Jernek, Petitioner, against United States of America, Respondent: Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (docket no. 34984), South River, N.J.; New York, N.Y.: Lutz Appellate Printers, 17 June 1971, appendix B, footnote c, page 20a:]
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More than one-quarter (26 per cent) poor in 1991 exited poverty in 1992. [1995 August, Poverty’s Revolving Door (Bureau of the Census Statistical Brief; SB/95-20), [Washington, D.C.]: Bureau of the Census, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, →OCLC, page 1, column 2:]
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Many owners of private businesses will make the decision to exit their businesses because they have reached natural retirement age, or because they are ill, or because they have decided for personal reasons that they have just had enough. [2002, John Hawkey, “The Importance of Time and Timing”, in Exit Strategy Planning: Grooming Your Business for Sale or Succession, Aldershot, Hampshire; Burlington, Vt.: Gower Publishing, →ISBN, page 3:]
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[C]ommunity-based programmes for women exiting prison work most effectively when cultural issues are a primary consideration and relationships of trust are already established. [2011, Dot Goulding, “Breaking the Cycle: Addressing Cultural Difference in Rehabilitation Programmes”, in Rosemary Sheehan, Gill McIvor, Chris Trotter, editors, Working with Women Offenders in the Community, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Willan Publishing, →ISBN, page 173:]
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These geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) can become a hazard when they flow through conducting infrastructure, usually entering and exiting networks where equipment is grounded to Earth. [2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:]
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When Walsh exited the "Q" train, he walked three blocks underground on the concourse which took him into the World Trade Center, the twin towers which highlight the skyline of lower Manhattan. [1994, William F. Roemer, Jr., Mob Power Plays: The Mob Attempts Control of Congress, Casinos and Baseball: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: S.P.I. Books, Shapolsky Publishers, →ISBN, page 159:]
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West now plays a low club to the J and Q. North exits in a trump. [2014, D. K. Acharya, Standard Methods of Contract Bridge Complete, page 173:]