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MOVE OUT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move out of one's old house or office

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "move out" is one way to...):

move (change residence, affiliation, or place of employment)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "move out"):

clear out (move out and leave nothing behind)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

move in (move into a new house or office)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to leave

Example:

The teacher took the children out of the classroom

Synonyms:

move out; remove; take out

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Cause:

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "move out"):

clear (remove (people) from a building)

call in (take a player out of a game in order to exchange for another player)

estrange (remove from customary environment or associations)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

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 Context examples: 

An eclipse like the one January 10 will sometimes eclipse out a person from your life—so, for example, you might hear that your roommate is suddenly about to move out, or your nanny who cares for your children and lives with your family may announce she is returning home overseas.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you were to break up with your steady (and I see nothing in your chart suggesting this, it is only an example), one of you could suddenly want to move out, causing a circumstance that you don’t anticipate.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Or it may be that this month, your roommate will suddenly move out, leaving you to pay the entire rent until you find a new roommate which will take time. (Don’t pick one while Mercury is retrograde.)

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)