open out
phrasal verbopen out
- to become bigger or wider
- The street opened out into a small square.
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open out (to somebody) (British English)
(also open up (to somebody) British and North American English)
- to talk about what you feel and think; to become less shy and more willing to communicate
- He only opened out to her very slowly.