Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

write out

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.01 in modern English

Syllables: write out
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To write at full length or in expanded form.

Transitive verb

verb

To write or fill out (a ticket or citation).

Transitive verb

verb

To exclude from a narrative or history.

Transitive verb

verb

To remove (a character in a fictional series such as a TV show) by writing the script so as to explain their disappearance (through death, moving away, etc.).

Transitive verb

verb

To exhaust one's mental capacity by too much writing.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"Don't use abbreviations; write out words!"
"The temperance movement was driven by women, but we let ourselves be written out of that because it gave us a bad name."
"Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History."
"“Jussie Smollett continues to be a consummate professional on set and as we have previously stated, he is not being written out of the show,” 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment said in a joint statement released on Wednesday."

Usage

Inflected Forms

writes out (present, singular) writing out (participle, present) wrote out (past) written out (participle, past)

Synonyms

issue make out cut write up

Questions

What does write out mean?: To write at full length or in expanded form.

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