Meaning of write out | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To write at full length or in expanded form.
   transitive
2. To write or fill out (a ticket or citation).
   transitive
3. To exclude from a narrative or history.
   broadly, transitive
4. To remove (a character in a fictional series such as a TV show) by writing the script so as to explain their disappearance (through death, moving away, etc.).
   broadly, transitive
5. To exhaust one's mental capacity by too much writing.
   intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Don't use abbreviations; write out words!”

“The temperance movement was driven by women, but we let ourselves be written out of that because it gave us a bad name.”

“Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History.”

““Jussie Smollett continues to be a consummate professional on set and as we have previously stated, he is not being written out of the show,” 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment said in a joint statement released on Wednesday.”

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