exit

1. (intransitive) To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.Examples: "Come, good Remus, our men await us. Let the lion roar and roam to-day; he may be of service; to-morrow, perchance we'll chain him. [Exit Stephano right fourth entrance. Soft music. Remus, exiting, looks hard at Romulus. Exit Remus right fourth entrance.]"; "Lucy enters at 11 o'clock and runs to her mother after blowing kiss to audience with both hands. They both exit at 11 o'clock, after Appleby's line. Ethel crosses to her victim at 3 o'clock, winks at him and then looks over her shoulder as she crosses to door at 1 o'clock, where she speaks her line and exits."; "The sciatic nerve exits via the greater sciatic foramen and may in fact be divided by all or part of the piriformis muscle. The pudendal nerve exits via greater sciatic foramen and enters perineum via the lesser sciatic foramen."Antonyms: arrive, come, enter, ingressintransitive

2. (intransitive) To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.Examples: "Desdemona exits stage left."Antonyms: arrive, come, enter, ingressintransitive

3. (intransitive, often euphemistic) To depart from life; to die.Synonyms: assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord, bite the big oneeuphemisticintransitiveoften

4. (ambitransitive, computing) To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)Examples: "Common Lisp provides a facility for exiting from a complex process in a non-local, dynamically scoped manner."; "Every ZAF program needs to call a routine like this to exit the application. Just put it in your library and be done with it."ambitransitive

5. (transitive, originally US, also figuratively) To depart from or leave (a place or situation).Examples: "At approximately 10:35 a.m. said John Doe exited 110 East 36th Street without the brown paper bag. [...] On four occasions, said John Doe was observed exiting 110 East 36th Street and observed on two occasions entering apartment actually marked 71, but meaning apartment 710 on seventh floor of 150 East 35th Street."; "More than one-quarter (26 per cent) poor in 1991 exited poverty in 1992."; "Many owners of private businesses will make the decision to exit their businesses because they have reached natural retirement age, or because they are ill, or because they have decided for personal reasons that they have just had enough."Antonyms: enteralsofigurativelytransitive

6. (transitive, originally US, also figuratively) To depart from or leave (a place or situation).Examples: "When Walsh exited the "Q" train, he walked three blocks underground on the concourse which took him into the World Trade Center, the twin towers which highlight the skyline of lower Manhattan."Antonyms: enteralsofigurativelyspecificallytransitive

1. (intransitive, drama, also figuratively) Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.Examples: "I take no mony, but good vvords, raile not if I tell true, if I do not reuenge. Farevvell. Exit Bom[bie]."; "A ſauage clamor? / Well may I get a-boord: This is the Chace, / I am gone for euer. / Exit purſued by a Beare."; "Agnes exit rapidly, and Ravenſburg is partly perſuaded, and partly forced off, by the Prince Palatine. END OF ACT I."Synonyms: exeatalsofigurativelyintransitive

1. (medicine) Acronym of ex utero intrapartum treatment, a specialized surgical procedure used to deliver babies who have airway compression.abbreviationacronymalt-of