out
adverb
away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: to go out to dinner.
have outed
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present perfectof out.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Doing so would have outed Collins as the magazine’s informant.
From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019
Their contact should be with former agents, preferably ones caught cheating and with media members who have outed agents as cheaters.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2018
Regardless of one’s views on whether Chen should have outed Violentacrez/Michael Brutsch, this result does not exactly generate a free marketplace of ideas.
From Forbes ● Jul. 15, 2015
Evans’s girlfriend, Natasha Massey, has led a campaign to have his conviction overturned, while people on the internet have outed the victim, whom Buerk described as “hiding like an IRA informer”.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2014
"And you're not long out of an illness that would have outed me in two days," he said.
From The Happy Warrior by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
