see out
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.92 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To accompany a guest to the door when he or she leaves (also used figuratively).
Formal; Transitive verb
verb
To continue something until completion; to watch an activity develop to a conclusion.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Please see our guest out."
- "I saw that boy into the world and I will see him out."
- "I'll never give up. I'm going to see this thing out."
- "Life. He's perished with it. / Is he very near the last? / At the backend of it, I'd say. With the prostate, the lungs, the liver. He's already half-ghost. / Can't we have another tomorrow? / This night will see him out. / God-God-God and God-God-God, please save him. […] The average stay was four to six years, when they died. When death arrived, they'd send for Burke and Hare."
- "The surviving units are now seeing out their final days on the Coastway route in Sussex, operated by Southern."
- "It turns out that, in journalistic terms, and especially at the FT, where many staff see out their entire careers, seven years is nothing."