write out
English
Verb
write out (third-person singular simple present writes out, present participle writing out, simple past wrote out, past participle written out)
- (transitive) To write at full length or in expanded form.
- Don't use abbreviations; write out words!
- (transitive) To write a ticket or citation; to fill out a ticket or citation.
- (transitive, chiefly television) To exclude (a character in a TV show, etc.) by writing the script so as to explain their disappearance (through death, moving away, etc.).
- 2019 February 20, Sopan Deb, “Fox Stands by Jussie Smollett: ‘He Is Not Being Written Out of the Show’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- “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.
- (transitive, by extension) To exclude someone from a narrative or history.
- 2019 May 14, Karen Zraick, Chang W. Lee, “Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History. Now They’re Getting Their Due.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History. [title]
- To exhaust one's mental capacity by too much writing.
Translations
to write at full length
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To exclude (a character in a TV show etc.)
Anagrams
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