| VERB | change | come out, come on, turn up, surface, show up | appear or become visible |
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| change | come out, appear | be issued or published | |
| change | come out, issue, emerge, come forth, go forth, egress | come out of | |
| stative | come out, turn out | result or end | |
| motion | come out, fall out | come off | |
| cognition | come out, place, come in | take a place in a competition | |
| motion | come out, come to the fore, step forward, come forward, step up, step to the fore | make oneself visible | |
| motion | come out, start, protrude, pop, pop out, bulge, bulge out, bug out | bulge outward | |
| communication | come out, come out of the closet, out | to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality | |
| communication | come out, out | be made known | |
| change | come out, erupt, break through, push through | break out |
| Meaning | Appear or become visible; make a showing. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | come on, turn up, surface, show up | |
| Broader | appear | Come into sight or view |
| Spanish | aparecer, salir, surgir | |
| Catalan | sorgir, sortir | |
| Meaning | Be issued or published. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
| Example | "The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet" | |
| Synonym | appear | |
| Broader | happen, materialize, materialise | come into being |
| Spanish | aflorar, aparecer, estrenarse, salir | |
| Catalan | aflorar, aparèixer, estrenar-se, sortir | |
| Meaning | Come out of. | |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Example | "The words seemed to come out by themselves" | |
| Synonyms | issue, emerge, come forth, go forth, egress | |
| Narrower | come out, fall out | Come off |
| debouch | Pass out or emerge | |
| escape | issue or leak, as from a small opening | |
| fall | Come out | |
| leak | Enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure | |
| pop out | come out suddenly or forcefully | |
| radiate | issue or emerge in rays or waves | |
| Spanish | aparecer, dictar, emerger, salir, surgir | |
| Catalan | aparèixer, brollar, dictar, emergir, sorgir, sortir | |
| Meaning | Result or end. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Synonym | turn out | |
| Narrower | eventuate | Come out in the end |
| work out | happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well | |
| Broader | end, stop, finish, terminate, cease | Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense |
| Spanish | acabar, terminar | |
| Meaning | Come off. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Synonym | fall out | |
| Broader | issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress | Come out of |
| Spanish | caerse, salirse | |
| Meaning | Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective | |
| Synonyms | place, come in | |
| Broader | rank | Take or have a position relative to others |
| Spanish | figurar | |
| Meaning | make oneself visible; take action. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | come to the fore, step forward, come forward, step up, step to the fore | |
| Broader | act, move | Perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) |
| Meaning | bulge outward. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Synonyms | start, protrude, pop, pop out, bulge, bulge out, bug out | |
| Broader | change shape, change form, deform | assume a different shape or form |
| Spanish | resaltar, salirse, saltar, sobresalir | |
| Meaning | To state openly and publicly one's homosexuality. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | come out of the closet, out | |
| Broader | unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out, uncover | Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret |
| Catalan | sortir de l'armari | |
| Meaning | Be made known; be disclosed or revealed. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Synonym | out | |
| Spanish | salir, ser revelado, surgir | |
| Catalan | sorgir, sortir | |
| Meaning | break out. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Synonyms | erupt, break through, push through | |
| Narrower | dehisce | Burst or split open |
| Broader | appear | Come into sight or view |
| Similar to | erupt | Appear on the skin |
| Spanish | brotar, entrar en erupción, hacer erupción, salir | |
| Catalan | sortir | |
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