out
adverb
away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: to go out to dinner.
had outed
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past perfectof out.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She then posted on Instagram that Variety had outed her.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023
But the Herald's editor, Bevan Shields, denied the paper had outed Wilson, saying it had made no decision about what it would have published.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2022
The billionaire Facebook board member Peter Thiel quickly seized on the case as an opportunity to settle his own grudge with Gawker, which had outed him as gay in 2007 and criticised his business dealings.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2020
They responded to other users who had expressed incredulity at #EndFathersDay and encouraged them to search the handle of any account they thought was fake with #YourSlipIsShowing to see if anyone had outed them.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2019
And, hang me, if the major didn't say we must go and make absolutely sure that we had outed 'em.
From Pushed and the Return Push by George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
