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go out

Phrasal Verb with go
 
 
/gəʊ/ verb [I] (present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone)

Definition

LEAVE to leave a place in order to go somewhere else: Are you going out tonight?
LIGHT/FIRE If a light or something that is burning goes out, it stops producing light or heat: It took ages for the fire to go out.
RELATIONSHIP If two people go out together, they have a romantic relationship with each other: I've been going out with him for a year.
(Definition of go out from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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