OUTED Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

outed

verb

Definition of outed next

past tense of out

as in circulated

to become known the truth will out eventually

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as in dismissed

to drive or force out before moving in, we outed all the furry little creatures who had settled in the cabin over the winter

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Recent Examples of outed The new season sees Reid's Lestat de Lioncourt living the rockstar life, as vampires have been outed by author Daniel Molloy (Eric Bobosian) in his book that interviews Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson). —

Debbie Day, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Mar. 2026 White segregationists and liberals have outed Black people as deviant to maintain their claims to normalcy and socioeconomic dominance. —

Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026 The San Jose State controversy initially gained traction in conservative media outlets, including the website Reduxx, which outed the athlete before the 2024 season. —

Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026 Audits released in December found that the city's aviation department lacked oversight of over 90% of their non-construction contracts, and outed a former Austin Energy employee for stealing nearly $1 million in public money by routing contracts to fictitious vendors. —

Chaya Tong, Austin American Statesman, 15 Jan. 2026 Dunbar cited research on social networks that suggests people in interconnected friend groups are more likely to be generous to one another, possibly out of fear of being outed as miserly to an entire group. —

Jenny Singer, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026 Jenkins recalled how Bledsoe outed a civic group that shut kids’ lemonade stands near a golf tournament the group sponsored. —

Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 1 Jan. 2026 Authorities later zeroed in on Wright and Giebler, who co-owned the Charles-Anthony Funeral Home and were widely regarded as brothers in the town of Florence — but outed as romantic partners to the community at large after a criminal investigation into Griffy's death. —

Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025 Williams, whose orientation wasn’t widely known, was outed in an article published in 1991 by The Advocate, an LGBTQ+ magazine. —

Michael Collins, USA Today, 18 Nov. 2025

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Reports recently circulated that Paul and Mortensen both accused each other of physical violence during the season-three Mormon Wives reunion filmed last fall, but that the segment was edited out of the final cut.

— Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
However, undesirable and unflattering information occasionally gets out and circulated, as was the case when a missile struck an Iranian elementary school.

— Andrea Hickerson, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2026