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let out en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To release.
    • If you go into the aviary, don't let out any of the birds!
    • I was able to let the butterfly out of the window.
    • The students were let out of school early.
  2. (Canada, US, intransitive) Of a school: to finish for the day or term, allowing the pupils to go home.
    • We're gonna have practice tomorrow morning for an assembly we're giving on Thursday before school lets out for Easter. 1999, Laura Beckham, A Bad Seed: And Other Stories, page 47:
  3. To allow to operate at higher speed by adjusting controls.
    • The engineer let out the throttle after the train crossed the bridge.
    • He let out the reins when they were a mile from the barn.
  4. To rent out.
    • We let out the house and went on a two-year world trip.
  5. (of clothing) To enlarge by adjusting one or more seams.
    • After the holidays he had to have his suits let out.
  6. (informal) Of sound, to emit.
    • The dog let out a yelp.
    • For a moment Mr. Stink fell silent. Then he opened his mouth and let out the deepest darkest dirtiest burp. 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
  7. To disclose.
    • He accidentally let out the location for the meeting.
  8. (transitive) To begin to tell a story.
  9. (dated, slang, transitive) To lay off or fire someone (from a job).

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
let out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
let out Tense=Past lexicographic
lets out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
letting out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Antonyms

take in

Coordinates

let down

Translations (23)

pl wypuścić (to release) · fi päästää (of sound, to emit) · sv utstöta (of sound, to emit) · pl zrobić (of sound, to emit) · bg отпускам (of clothing: to enlarge by adjusting one or more seams) · hu kiad (of sound, to emit) · fr rallonger (of clothing: to enlarge by adjusting one or more seams) · fi lisätä vauhtia (to allow to operate at higher speed by adjusting controls) · bg освобождавам (to release) · izh laskia (to release) · sv ge ifrån sig (of sound, to emit) · de auslassen (of clothing: to enlarge by adjusting one or more seams) · fi löysätä (to allow to operate at higher speed by adjusting controls) · fi paljastaa (to disclose) · pl wydawać (of sound, to emit) · ru расставить (of clothing: to enlarge by adjusting one or more seams) · pl wydać (of sound, to emit) · fi väljentää (of clothing: to enlarge by adjusting one or more seams) · pl robić (of sound, to emit) · hu kienged (to release) · fi päästää (to release) · pl wypuszczać (to release) · bg изпускам (of sound, to emit)