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shake out

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of shake out

to come to be

  • after hearing about all the elaborate planning, I can't wait to see how that wedding shakes out
Synonyms of shake out

come out, fall out, pan out, prove, turn out
Words Related to shake out

develop, emerge, evolve, germinate, play out, unfold, work out

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