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WELL OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Flow freely and abundantly
Example:
Tears streamed down her face
Synonyms:
stream; well out
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "well out" is one way to...):
course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "well out"):
spin (stream in jets, of liquids)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Context examples:
“Take my rede, sir, and let it drop, for you have come very well out from it.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the whole, I think that we are jolly well out of it.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Not I,” quoth the archer, pulling on his clothes, “I have come well out of the business. I would sooner wrestle with the great bear of Navarre.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So I sized you down, and I'm bound to say that you came well out of it.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
