exit
verb/ˈeksɪt/, /ˈeɡzɪt/
/ˈeksɪt/, /ˈeɡzɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they exit | /ˈeksɪt/, /ˈeɡzɪt/ /ˈeksɪt/, /ˈeɡzɪt/ |
| he / she / it exits | /ˈeksɪts/, /ˈeɡzɪts/ /ˈeksɪts/, /ˈeɡzɪts/ |
| past simple exited | /ˈeksɪtɪd/, /ˈeɡzɪtɪd/ /ˈeksɪtɪd/, /ˈeɡzɪtɪd/ |
| past participle exited | /ˈeksɪtɪd/, /ˈeɡzɪtɪd/ /ˈeksɪtɪd/, /ˈeɡzɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form exiting | /ˈeksɪtɪŋ/, /ˈeɡzɪtɪŋ/ /ˈeksɪtɪŋ/, /ˈeɡzɪtɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] (formal) to go out; to leave a building, stage, vehicle, etc.
- (+ adv./prep.) We exited through a corridor into a back alley.
- We exited via a fire door.
- exit something As the actors exited the stage the lights went on.
Extra Examples- Exit the motorway at junction 23.
- One of the intruders must have exited through a side door.
- Passengers exited the aircraft through the rear door.
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- [intransitive, transitive] to finish using a computer program
- exit (from something) To exit from this page, press the return key.
- exit something I exited the database and switched off the computer.
- [intransitive] exit…used in the instructions printed in a play to say that an actor must leave the stage
- Exit Macbeth.
compare exeunt
Word Originmid 16th cent. (as a stage direction): from Latin exit ‘he or she goes out’, third person singular present tense of exire, from ex- ‘out’ + ire ‘go’. The noun (late 16th cent.) is from Latin exitus ‘going out’, from the verb exire, and the other verb uses (early 17th cent.) derive from it.
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