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spool out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To appear in succession, as if from a film spool.
    • The old songs spool out, reaffirming once again everything that is great about the Streets. "Brace yourself, 'cause this goes deep," runs a line from Turn the Page, pointing up [Mike] Skinner's ability to grapple with existential dread as well as the cinematic, blow-by-blow accounts of everyday lairiness. 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2019:

Forms

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spooling out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
spools out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
spooled out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
spooled out Tense=Past lexicographic