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talk out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To resolve (a problem) by talking about it.
    • No need to talk it out / We know what it's all about 1971, “Rainy Days and Mondays”, in Paul Williams, Roger Nichols (music), Carpenters, performed by The Carpenters:
    • You two are staying in the detention room until you talk it out.
    • Well-meaning friends may [...] not listen and help us talk out our grief and pain. 2014 January 2, Tim P Van Duivendyk, The Unwanted Gift of Grief: A Ministry Approach, Routledge, →ISBN:
  2. To speak out (about something).
    • But first, he says that you've got a lot of strength to talk out about this. [...] You are brave to think and talk about this. 2019 May 23, L. Bryce Boyer, Simon A. Grolnick, The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 11: Essays in Honor of Werner Muensterberger, Routledge, →ISBN:
    • We have never had the courage to talk out about it. I have, and I have been kicked out of several parties. 1945, United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, Full Employment Act of 1945, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of ..., 79-1 on S.380 ..., July 30 ... September 1, 1945, page 641:
  3. (qualifier:parliamentary jargon, transitive) To filibuster (a bill).
    • talk out the bill
    • talk out a bill
  4. (transitive) To exhaust conversation about; to say all that there is to say about.
    • The interruption was a telephone call and Nickle crossed over to the small table by the door while the other two, the subject of Eliza talked out, waited to hear if there was any new development. 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
talks out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
talked out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
talked out Tense=Past lexicographic
talking out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Coordinates

work through · fight it out · hug it out · hash out · work out · talk through

Relateds

speak out · talk into · talk out of

Translations (6)

nl uitpraten (to resolve a problem by talking about it) · hu kibeszél (to resolve a problem by talking about it) · uk обгово́рювати (to resolve a problem by talking about it) · gl tratar (to resolve a problem by talking about it) · uk відмовля́ти (to persuade someone not to do something) · de ausdiskutieren (to resolve a problem by talking about it)