got out

verb

past tense of get out
1
as in spread
to become known news of the rock star's secret wedding got out to the news media

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms
2
as in escaped
to get free from a dangerous or confining situation tried but couldn't get out of the old well without assistance

Synonyms & Similar Words

Antonyms & Near Antonyms
3
as in published
to produce and release for distribution in printed form a romance novelist who got a new book out every year

Synonyms & Similar Words

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of got out Then Reyes got out of the car, dragged the unconscious victim out of the street and placed his bag next to him on a bench before fleeing the scene, the documents said. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026 After Cambodia's crackdown, workers who had money to buy a plane ticket home got out quickly. — ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026 Someone got out of the front passenger seat of the car, walked around the back of the vehicle, pulled a gun out of the pocket of his hoodie, and fired four shots into the front driver's side window. — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026 On one April night outside the castle, several picketers were struck by a patron’s car, and a few others were shoved by the passenger who got out of the vehicle, according to video footage later aired by Fox 11 Los Angeles. — Alessandra Schade, Vanity Fair, 28 Oct. 2026 Igoe said the suspect vehicle then stopped on Fulton Avenue, where the suspect got out and started pacing back and forth with a knife in his hand in front of his vehicle. — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026 Her mother-in-law got out of the car and walked in front of the group, directing traffic through the haze. — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2026 When the Nissan's occupants stopped to check on him, Tanaka allegedly got out of his vehicle with a handgun and fired at least one round into the car's windshield. — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2026 But Sale got out of that momentary jam with a strikeout — his seventh of the game at that point — of Realmuto. — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for got out
  1. spread
  2. escaped
  3. published
  4. circulated
  5. fled
  6. printed
  7. came out
  8. ran away
Verb
  • The suites are spread across two floors, with either a garden terrace or balcony.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Some of that investment could be spread across several markets, according to a Thursday report from Mirae Asset Securities.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of spread
Verb
  • Three women inmates escaped a transport van in the midst of the fire chaos, and Mickey needed her troops to find the missing convicts instead of helping with the fire.
    — Megan Vick, Variety, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Stayner first became notable as the older brother of Steven Stayner, who escaped a 1972 kidnapping in 1980.
    — Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of escaped
Verb
  • The company has not yet published AIR’s overall dimensions, weight, reach, battery capacity, or maximum payload.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 9 Nov. 2026
  • City University of New York’s Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility project, or CLEAR, published legal guides for BLM advocates on avoiding law enforcement scrutiny in 2020.
    — Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 9 Nov. 2026
Definition of published
Verb
  • After LoForti’s complaints circulated within a widening circle of county and state officials, Kellum responded.
    — Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
  • America turned 200 on July 4, 1976, nearly three months before Songs circulated.
    — Kevin Powell, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of circulated
Verb
  • Other passengers hit the man, and when the bus stopped and the couple fled, a crowd of riders and people from the street chased them, until they were rescued by police.
    — Paul Bloom, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Palestinian citizens of Israel, descendants of those who remained as the state of Israel was established in 1948 (when a majority of the prewar population was forcibly expelled or fled during the war) now make up about 20% of the population.
    — Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of fled
Verb
  • In addition, election officials had extra ballots printed, Sloop said.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Officials say 5 million stickers featuring the design have been printed and distributed statewide.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of printed
Verb
  • The campaign put out a public call play at local quinceañeras, which are birthday parties for girls turning 15 in Latino communities, and Pulido came out to more than 75 events.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2026
  • After the allegations came out, Brand converted to Christianity and spoke about his religion extensively on his social media channels.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of came out
Verb
  • The neighbor, still on the scene, appeared to pick up another unidentified object from the ground, ABC 7 reported, but was approached by an ICE agent who told him to drop it, then sprayed a substance at the neighbor, who ran away with his dogs.
    — Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2026
  • When an officer approached the car, Vermontay Burch, 20, jumped out and ran away, according to the department.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of ran away

Browse Nearby Words

go to seed
got out
got round
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Got out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/got%20out. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

Copy Citation
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences

More from Merriam-Webster

Word of the Day

Listen to the pronunciation of defer

See Definitions and Examples »

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

How to Use 'Who' vs. 'Whom'

31 Useful Rhetorical Devices

More Commonly Misspelled Words

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

'Affect' vs. 'Effect'
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 5

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

The Longest Long Words List

Even More Bird Names that Sound Like Insults (and Sometimes Are)

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World
See More

Popular

See More

How to Use 'Who' vs. 'Whom'

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 5

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
woman sitting on floor holding book in front of her face on pink background
Famous Novels, Last Lines Quiz Needless to say, spoiler alert.
See All