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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

bail out on en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To abandon (someone or something).
    • But he's just kind of jumped ship. He's bailed out on Basingstoke as a town without even warning us. 2004 December 11, Faisal al Yafai, Owen Bowcott and Michael White, “Meet the DUP's new MP ... for Basingstoke”, in The Guardian, page Politics:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bails out on Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
bailing out on Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bailed out on Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bailed out on Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

walk out on · leave in the lurch