Dictionary

write out en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. (transitive) To write at full length or in expanded form.
   • Don't use abbreviations; write out words!
2. (transitive) To write or fill out (a ticket or citation).
3. (broadly, transitive) To exclude from a narrative or history.
   • The temperance movement was driven by women, but we let ourselves be written out of that because it gave us a bad name. 2018 April 11, Zoe Williams, “What's the best way to get written out of history? Be a middle-aged woman”, in The Guardian:
   • Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History. 2019 May 14, Karen Zraick, Chang W. Lee, “Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History. Now They’re Getting Their Due.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
4. (broadly, transitive) To remove (a character in a fictional series such as a TV show) by writing the script so as to explain their disappearance (through death, moving away, etc.).
   • “Jussie Smollett continues to be a consummate professional on set and as we have previously stated, he is not being written out of the show,” 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment said in a joint statement released on Wednesday. 2019 February 20, Sopan Deb, “Fox Stands by Jussie Smollett: ‘He Is Not Being Written Out of the Show’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
5. (intransitive) To exhaust one's mental capacity by too much writing.

Forms

Translations (9)

is skrifa fullum stöfum (to write at full length) · it appuntare (to write at full length) · hu kiír (to write at full length) · is skrifa óstyttan texta (to write at full length) · de ausschreiben (to write at full length) · fi kirjoittaa auki (to write at full length) · it emettere (to write at full length) · ru писа́ть по́лностью (to write at full length) · is rita fullu stöfum (to write at full length)